Historical fiction books from Italy
Recommended historical fiction books (28)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Italy for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco EN
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"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over.... Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--o... continue
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Happiness, as Such by Natalia Ginzburg EN
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The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from "a glowing light of modern Italian literature" (New York Times Book Review) Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award
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Leii Siciliei by Stefania Auci RO
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O familie care a sfidat destinul. O familie care a învins. O familie care a ajuns legendară. CEL MAI BINE VÂNDUT ROMAN DIN ITALIA ÎN 2019. Romanul care a cucerit lumea în curs de traducere în 22 de țări. Din momentul în care ajunge la Palermo în 1799 familia Florio nu se mai uită înapoi și decide să ajungă deasupra tuturor cât mai bogată și cât mai puternică. Și reușește: în scurt timp ambițioși și motivați frații Paolo și Ignazio își transformă prăvălia de condimente în cea mai bună din oraș apoi încep să cumpere case și terenuri de la nobilii din Palermo și își pornesc propria companie de na... continue
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The Betrothed : I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni EN
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“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters—the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister "Unnamed"—in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed... continue
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The Boy Who Granted Dreams by Luca Di Fulvio EN
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New York, 1909: Fifteen-year-old Cetta arrives on a freighter with nothing but her infant son Natale: strikingly blond, dark-eyed, and precocious. They've fled the furthest reaches of southern Italy with the dream of a better life in America. But even in the "Land of the Free," the merciless laws of gangs rule the miserable, poverty-stricken, and crime-filled Lower East Side. Only those with enough strength and conviction survive. As young Natale grows up in the Roaring Twenties, he takes a page from his crippled mother's book and finds he possesses a certain charisma that enables him to charm... continue
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The Chimera by Sebastiano Vassalli EN
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Offering a study of hypocrisy and evil, a comic novel of religious corruption and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Italy chronicles the fate of a young orphan named Antonia, who is burned at the stake in the town of Novara in 1610.