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"The Virgin and the Modest" by Italian writer Mario Puccini is a novel set in Roman life that explores love, morality, social differences, and the position of women in modern society through the contrast of two female characters.
The novel is a kaleidoscopic, polyphonic account of the life of Gerda Taro (née Gerda Pohorylle, 1910–1937), the first female war photographer to die on the battlefield. A must-read for fans of historical fiction about strong women and anti-fascism.
An overview of the history and position of Italian women from antiquity to Mussolini's fascist Italy, with an emphasis on their contribution to society and culture. A popular educational publication from the period of the Independent State of Croatia, wit
Marcello Clerici, obsessed with normality after a traumatic childhood and a homosexual attack, becomes a fascist bureaucrat. He marries the average Giulia, and on their "honeymoon" in Paris, he is assigned to kill a former professor, anti-fascist Quadri.
The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.
No Return (1938) follows the lives of eight young women in a Roman student dormitory, their loves, ambitions, and fates in Italian society before World War II, showing that the past cannot be returned or escaped from itself.