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The Ordeal of Saint Natalia
Andac the narrator is the son of a Syrian and an Alan. Although he is a freeborn Roman citizen, he has always regarded himself as an outsider, and for this reason he feels that he is singularly equipped to tell the story of a young Roman matron who deliberately made herself an outsider by exiling herself from the aristocratic circle in which she was born. In spite of her fabulous wealth, Natalia is determined to emulate her famous grandmother, who lived for years as an ascetic in the harsh desert of the Holy Land. Natalia wants not only to dispose of all her wealth, but also to live in poverty, and to coerce her husband Valerian into a life of chastity. As the story develops, Andac and his f...
For Theory
For Theory aims to open a discussion on the weakening of the production of theory in left-wing thought since the 1970s, based on Louis Althusser's ideas of overdetermination, plural temporality, conjuncture, and theoretical practice.
Family and Borghesia
Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dodò, who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family, the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, mis...
Natalia Ginzburg
This book explores Ginzburg’s Jewishness in her autobiographical writings and traces the shift in her self-representation. It brings together substantial historical background on the period surrounding the Racial Laws, when Natalia Ginzburg and other Italian Jews were forced to confront the significance of their Jewishness. It highlights the reactions by Jews and non-Jews to the growing anti-Semitism of the times. In this context, moral identity is also discussed as a facet of Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani’s Jewish identity.
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility
Today, the Ludovisi district is one of Rome’s most luxurious neighborhoods, home to famous restaurants and some of the most expensive shops in the city. But it was once private property, part of an eighty-six-acre villa owned by the Boncompagni Ludovisis, an ancient noble family with close ties to the papacy. The story of how the palazzo fell out of the family's hands reveals the tremendous social upheavals that Italy underwent following its mid-nineteenth-century unification. First privately published in 1921, The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility provides an intimate look at a family who grew up accustomed to almost unimaginable wealth, power, and glamour. A descendant of two popes, Ugo ...
The Afghan File Affair
It is the mid-1980s, and journalist Nick Gamble's girlfriend, Natalia, is a CIA agent who works at the American consulate in Florence, Italy. When Natalia goes missing, Nick goes on the hunt for the woman he loves and turns up so much more than he expected. Natalia has been kidnapped by Italian mobsters, under the employment of Arab terrorists. A film is missing one that exposes the names of Arab terrorists trained in East Germany and sent undercover to America in an effort to install Muslim sharia law. Natalia will be executed if the film is not recovered, but Nick has no clue where to start. With the help of the American Mafia and Italy's secret police, Nick's comfortable life as a journalist is turned upside down as he learns the truth about terrorist cells in Europe and their horrific plans for the future. He is driven to save Natalia, but the reality of the Arab master plan is much more terrifying than anyone could have expected.
Open City
A sampler of post-World War II Italian fiction, including excerpts from Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine and Elsa Morante's House of Liars. Nothing on the title, however, a film by Roberto Rossellini.
A Roman Boy
Lucius Decius Verus is the son of a Roman officer, Marcus Decius Verus, and his wife Camilla. They live in the north of England when that country is ruled by Rome around the time when Hadrian’s Wall is being built, about 122 AD. When he is only a few months old the couple, while driving through a wild storm, negligently lose the child from the carriage they are travelling in. The child, Lucius, is found by a local woman, Mora, who decides to keep the child. And she names the baby boy Corio. Camilla blames Marcus for the loss of her baby, the one love in her life, and she leaves him and goes south to live with her sister. Mora is later murdered by her husband, Vero, when Corio is three year...
Politics of the Visible
Challenges assumptions about Italian women writers under fascism. In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was generally an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else", mostly forgotten or overlooked in accounts of femininity under fascism, is what concerns Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Reading works by women of the period, Pickering-Iazzi shows how they refuted stereotypes that were imposed on them by the fascist regime and continue to be accepted and perpetuated into our day. The writers Pickering-Iazzi considers comprise both the popular and the critically acclaimed, including the illustrious Grazia Deledda (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926), Ada Negri, Sibilla Aleramo, Al...
The Druid Chronicles
My name is Charlene Roberts, or as my friends call me, Charlie. I'm a sergeant in the Seattle Police Homicide Division, but I also am a Druid that hunts demons and witches preying on my city. I have been tracking a demon who's killed eighteen women in my city, and with the eighteenth victim, we caught him on video committing the murder. I soon find out that I am not the only one hunting my prey. Natalia, a female demon, joins me in hunting the same demon who killed her lover centuries before. After I'm wounded in a shoot-out, I find myself falling for her as she nurses me back to health. Just where will this forbidden love go? Join us in a wild adventure of twists, turns, and surprises to find out.
