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Guido Cavalcanti's collection of Rime brings together love and philosophical poems from the early Italian dolce stil nuova. Through motifs of love, mind, and soul, Cavalcanti explores the conflict between reason and passion, and the transience of human fe
The autobiography of the Italian communist Giovanni Germanetto (1885–1959). The book vividly and humorously depicts the life of an Italian working-barber from his poor childhood to his involvement in the revolutionary labor movement.
Pirandello's essayistic-reflexive work "Sun and Shadow" explores the fragility of identity and the difference between who we are and what others see, depicting a man torn between inner truth and social masks.
A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.
In a typically Sardinian setting, through a dramatic love story, Deledda depicts the conflict between two families and their worlds – the peaceful, honest "doves" and the aggressive, greedy "hawks".
Solus ad solam (1910/1911) is an intimate, lyrical prose in which the author passionately and erotically describes his love for a woman, mixing ecstasy of body and spirit, poetic exaltation, and decadent sensuality.