Katherine Gregor is our new resident Italianist. Born in Rome, she is an appassionata and translator of Italian literature. In…
The Italianist: Riveting Italian Books You Need to Know About
My first article for The Italianist appeared a year ago this month. I don’t know about you but I can’t…
A publisher I once tried to interest in translating Italian fairy-tales said to me, “We don’t think of Italy when…
When Dolores loses her eighteen-year-old daughter to cancer, her three friends drop everything – their own families, jobs, boyfriends and…
Friuli, Italy, on the Austro-Hungarian border, 1915. An army officer interrupts Sunday Mass with a plea for help. The Italian…
Piedmont, 1969. The lifeless bodies of two missing children are unearthed after an anonymous letter is received by the local…
Lombardy, Autumn 1652. Weary of being abused by the nobility and the soldiers that keep pillaging the land, a group…
Fifty bridges, sketched in black, bathed in blue and white. Bridges built using stone or timber, made of powerful tree…
Andrà tutto bene (All Shall Be Well) Writers at the Time of the Quarantine by Ritanna Armeni, Stefania Auci, Alice…
1930s’ Rome. Mara, thirteen, and her best friend Nadia are inebriated by their enthusiasm for Fascism and its promise of…
“Political thinkers, in general, can be divided into two classes: the Utopian with his head in the clouds and the…
A valley in northern Italy where the sun filters through only three months a year. A tough teenager with fuchsia…
Christmas Eve. Seven women, all somehow connected to Vittorio (mother, wife, ex-wife, daughter 1, daughter 2, sister and girlfriend) are…
