The action takes place in 1942, at the end of the second year of the war in Italy. The Jovine family, consisting of fifty-year-old Gennaro Jovine, his wife Amalia, a beautiful thirty-seven-year-old woman, their children - the elder Maria Rosaria and Amedeo and the younger Rita, lives in a small, dirty and smoky apartment on ...

The action takes place in Naples in the rich house of fifty-two-year-old don Domenico Soriano, a successful entrepreneur. In the room are Don Domenico himself, Donna Filumena Marturano, the woman with whom he lived for the last twenty years, Donna Rosalia Solimene, a seventy-five old woman who shared ...

The illustrious Venetian adventurer, whose name became a household name, was a brilliant storyteller; gradually he began to record his stories; these notes grew into memoirs. Like any true adventurer, Casanova spends her life on the road. Arriving once in Constantinople, he meets ...

The plot of this novel by a famous Italian writer, philologist and literary historian dates back to the early seventies of the 20th century, a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Casobona University of Milan, becomes, by his own ...

The affairs of Count Anselmo Terraziani more or less got better when he, neglecting the arrogance of the estate, married his only son Giacinto to Doradic, the daughter of the wealthy Venetian merchant Pantalone dei Bizonosi, who gave her twenty thousand dowries. This amount could form the basis ...

In the hands of a future translator and publisher, Notes of Father Adson from Melk fall into Prague in 1968. On the title page of a French book from the middle of the last century it says that it is an arrangement from the Latin text of the 17th century, supposedly reproducing, in turn, the manuscript created by German ...

In December 1886, Count Andrea Serelli awaits his beloved in his chambers. Refined atmosphere evokes memories - Elena’s hands touched these things, Elena’s eyes fell on these paintings and curtains, the smell of these flowers intoxicated Elena. When she bent down to the fireplace, her figure resembled Danai Correggio. Passed ...