Italian literature

Predvojeni vikont

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.

Prezir / Agostino

In "Contempt," screenwriter Riccardo obsessively searches for the reason why his wife Emilia despises and alienates him. In "Agostino," a 13-year-old boy on a summer vacation with his mother experiences a sexual awakening and perceives his mother as a wom

Priča o skočimišu

Proždrljivac iz tundre

Prvo nebo: Priča o dvoglasnoj fugi

Mario Fortunato, for years one of the most controversial protagonists of Italian public life, currently the controversial director of the Italian Institute of Culture in London, published his first novel The First Sky in 1990.

Pustolovine u samostanu: priče iz Dekamerona

In this humorous and satirical story, Boccaccio depicts life in a monastery and ridicules the hypocrisy and weaknesses of people who should live morally and piously.

Rafael

A romanticized biography of the Renaissance painter Raffaello Sanzi, better known as Raphael. The work is enriched with 26 reproductions of Raphael's artworks, which further brings the reader closer to the visual aspect of the artist's oeuvre.

Ravnodušni / Agostino

Indifferent (1929), Moravia's first and most famous novel, a masterpiece of Italian modernism, the novel that brought him fame and recognition. Agostino (1944) is one of Moravia's most lyrical prose works, a short but powerful novel about coming of age.

Ravnodušni ljudi

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.

Rime

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