Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology - Softcover

Re, Anna; Barron, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934977704 ISBN 13: 9780934977708

Publisher: Italica Press, 2008

Synopsis

This volume brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from the deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing. Poetry and prose, the essay, the political and economic tract, and the new visual arts are all represented in this collection.Corrado Alvaro, Studio Azzurro, Mariella Bettarini, Virginio Bettini, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Italo Calvino, Dino Campana, Carlo Cassola, Antonio Cederna, Gianni Celati, Laura Conti, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giuseppe Desś, Danilo Dolci, Corrado Govoni, Tonino Guerra, Jolanda Insana, Carlo Levi, Nicola Licciardello, Loredana Lucarini, Gianna Manzini, Gianni Mattioli, Daria Menicanti, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Moretti, Giorgio Nebbia, Luciana Notari, Anna Maria Ortese, Giovanni Pascoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fulco Pratesi, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nuto Revelli, Monica Sarsini, Massimo Scalia, Carlo Sgorlon, Ignazio Silone, Mario Rigoni Stern, Alfredo Todisco, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Andrea Zanzotto.

About this title

About the Author:

ITALO CALVINO s superb storytelling gifts earned him international renown and a reputation as one of the world's best fabulists (New York Times Book Review). Heis the author of numerous works of fiction, as well as essays, criticism, and literary anthologies. Born in Cuba in 1923, Calvino was raised in Italy, where he lived most of his life. At the time of his death, in Siena in 1985, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Italica Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0934977704
• ISBN 13: 9780934977708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372