Author: Kerstin Pilz
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Keywords: studies, italian, troubador, complexity, mapping
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1904744206
ISBN-13: 9781904744207

This book presents an analysis of the dialogue of literature and science that forms a central part of the work of Italo Calvino, one of Italy’s best known contemporary authors. It provides an in-depth study of Calvino’s interest in scientific models and methods and the ways these have informed his narratives.

Author: Giovanni Finzi-Contini
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Keywords: studies, italian, troubador, journey, longest
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $12.04
ISBN-10: 1899293825
ISBN-13: 9781899293827

Born in 1932, Giovanni Finzi-Contini is both a distinguished geophysicist and prize-winning poet and novelist. In this, his first published novel, he imaginatively reconstructs the history of his maternal grandfather’s family in Ferrara from the emancipation of the Jews in newly united Italy to Fascist anti-Semitic persecution and the second world war. The elderly and frail Alberto Minerbi, who has escaped from a Fascist prison, is transported across Bologna on a cart, disguised as an old woman. As he goes, he recalls key episodes from his and his family’s past in a series of vivid

Author: Guia Risari
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Keywords: italian, studies, troubador, bassani, walls, romance, document
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $20.51
ISBN-10: 1899293663
ISBN-13: 9781899293667

Giorgio Bassani is an Italian-Jewish writer from Ferrara, famous largely for ’The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’, ’The Golden-Rimmed Eye Glasses’ and other novels, brought together in ’Il Romanzo di Ferrara’ (1980). In this monumental work, Bassani describes the life of the Italian Jews under Fascism. Bassani may be seen as not just a fictional writer, but as a witness of persecution of Jews under Fascism; his ’Romance’ is not so much a novel but a multifaceted document on Jewish life in the peninsular. This volume takes into account a close readin

Author: Martha King
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Keywords: italian, studies, troubador, life, deledda, legendary, grazia
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1904744672
ISBN-13: 9781904744672

This is a timely and extensive biography of a writer who, in the early twentieth century, achieved such status in the literary world that publishers in Italy vied for her novels, and editors felt honoured to publish her short stories and ’sketches’. Now, almost seventy years after her death, her novels continue to be reprinted and translated, and critical appreciation of her work continues to grow. Her works still live and have the power to move her readers.

Author: Icon Group
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Keywords: thesaurus, french, webster, land, troubador
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-09-18
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0497989794
ISBN-13: 9780497989798

This edition is written in English. However, there is a running French thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of In Troubador-Land. This edition would be useful if you would like to enrich your French-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower pr

Author: Sharon Wood
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Keywords: troubador, italian, studies, deledda, grazia, modernity, essays, challenge
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1906221677
ISBN-13: 9781906221676

Grazia Deledda has been variously categorised as Romantic, Realist, Symbolist or Decadent. This book aims to show the writer and her work in a fresh light, emphasising the extraordinary nature of her achievement given her unpromising beginnings. It offers insight into her work from the perspectives of modernism, feminism and post-colonialism.

Authors:Francesca Duranti, Nicoletta di Ciolla McGowan,
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Keywords: studies, italian, troubador, dreams, handed
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $10.19
ISBN-10: 1899293868
ISBN-13: 9781899293865

English translation of the popular Italan novel