italian literature

More than just literature, Pinocchio is a cultural icon of the postmodern era

The author will be presenting his new translation of Alessandro Manzoni's classic in New York

“Writing a book is like playing a game of cards: a game with four people, two rival pairs.” So begins the poetic allegory of writing offered by Elisabetta Rasy at the start of the first edition of the Italian Literary...

The third of six articles focusing on the Italian cultural centers in New York. (Photoshoot by Terry W. Sanders)

“It took me 83 years to publish my first book,” said Vito De Simone. And now indeed, he has. In The Ovum Government: A Way to Preserve National Sovereignty and Limit Governments from Waging Wars of Aggression, De Simone proposes...

Disney distorted the personality of the central character, replaced the message at the heart of the fable, and changed the setting…but Pinocchio is a story with many, many, levels of cultural, social, political, culinary and religious (particularly the “prodigal son”...

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of...

This literary amusement distracted me from the tragic daily chronicle of an ever closer siege, made me reread some of the most beautiful pages of the novel and convinced me more and more of Manzoni's greatness not only in producing...