Italia -- Mamma Mia!
Discover the soul of Italy through captivating books, from Boccaccio's *The Decameron* to Lampedusa's *The Leopard*. Explore Roman history, travel tales, and timeless classics in this curated Italian literature and history reading list.
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, philosophers, students, peasants, pilgrims, thieves, and others--who have fled the city to escape the plague.
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The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.