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In the Decameron, ten young people fleeing the plague tell stories about love, fate and ingenuity. The adapted version of Ljerka Car Matutinović brings selected novellas, adapted to school, with an emphasis on humor, morality and Renaissance spirit.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
The novel is an important representative of verismo, Italian realism, and depicts the lives of people from the south of Italy, especially the conflicts between the poor peasantry and the decaying aristocracy.
The Lying Life of Adults (2019), a stand-alone novel by Elena Ferrante, takes us to Naples in the 1990s through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Giovanna Trade, a bright, middle-class girl whose world falls apart with the discovery of her family's lies.
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.
The Biscounted Viscount is a novel by Italo Calvino published in 1952. It is the first part of the Our Ancestors trilogy, which also includes the short novels The Baron in the Trees from 1957 and The Nonexistent Knight from 1959.