Books

A modern Italian masterpiece, The Eight Mountains is a lyrical coming-of-age story about the power of male friendships and the enduring bond between fathers and sons.

A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction

Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is a complete critical edition of the first three volumes of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English.

Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.

These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times).

To Each His Own is one of the masterworks of the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia—a gripping and unconventional detective story that is also an anatomy of a society founded on secrets, lies, collusion, and violence.

The Travels of Marco Polo presents Marco Polo’s vivid accounts of his journeys through Asia, offering a blend of observation, wonder, and medieval imagination that shaped Europe’s early understanding of the East.

This literary masterpiece, composed in the early 16th century, weaves together an intricate and fantastical narrative filled with love, heroism, magic, and adventure.

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition.

A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors.

Crystallizing the power and beauty inherent in the great poet’s immortal conception of the aspiring soul, The Divine Comedy is a dazzling work of sublime truth and mystical intensity.

Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologic

Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest Italian poet of the Nineteenth Century.

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art

History of My Life is by turns touching, thrilling, wonderfully comic, and quite irresistible.

The haunting, classic novel of Fascist Italy on the brink of World War II, made into an Academy Award-winning film.

History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome.

The Betrothed's exploration of love, power, and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels.

There have been many political philosophies published throughout the time of literate man, but few have made such an impact in so few words as Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince.

A complete edition of the hilarious, bawdy, irreverent masterpiece of medieval Italy—and an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron.