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Piazze baciate dal sole, mercati vivaci e tradizioni secolari prendono vita in storie di vita e amore nei borghi incantevoli e nelle città vibranti d'Italia. Che si tratti di ricette di famiglia tramandate di generazione in generazione o di estati trasformative trascorse a passeggiare per strade acciottolate, questi libri catturano il calore, la passione e la bellezza senza tempo della cultura italiana.

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The Tartar Steppe

di Dino Buzzati

A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.

4.20

43.000+

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Italia

Immersivi

The Tartar Steppe

A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.

di Dino Buzzati 1940 198 pagine

4.20

43.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Italia

Il Principe

di Niccolò Machiavelli • 1532

How to keep power when being good would cost you everything. The advice that horrified Europe.

3.84

300.000+

Filosofia

Politica

Classici

Immersivi

Il Principe

How to keep power when being good would cost you everything. The advice that horrified Europe.

di Niccolò Machiavelli 1532 144 pagine

3.84

300.000+ valutazioni

Filosofia

Politica

Classici

Conclave

di Robert Harris • 2016

The Pope dies. Cardinal Lomeli runs the conclave, but the candidates' sins could destroy the Church.

4.12

80.000+

Thriller

Giallo

Suspense

Conclave

The Pope dies. Cardinal Lomeli runs the conclave, but the candidates' sins could destroy the Church.

di Robert Harris 2016 288 pagine

4.12

80.000+ valutazioni

Thriller

Giallo

Suspense

L'amica geniale

di Elena Ferrante • 2011

When brilliant Lila vanishes, Elena reopens their history of fierce love and rivalry in Naples.

4.05

400.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

L'amica geniale

When brilliant Lila vanishes, Elena reopens their history of fierce love and rivalry in Naples.

di Elena Ferrante 2011 331 pagine

4.05

400.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

The Sicilian Inheritance

di Jo Piazza • 2024

A failing chef inherits land in Sicily and a mystery: was her great-grandmother murdered?

3.98

59.000+

Narrativa storica

Giallo

Italia

The Sicilian Inheritance

A failing chef inherits land in Sicily and a mystery: was her great-grandmother murdered?

di Jo Piazza 2024 384 pagine

3.98

59.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Giallo

Italia

Il nome della rosa

di Umberto Eco • 1980

A medieval abbey's first death draws a friar into a library that murders to guard a forbidden text.

4.14

300.000+

Narrativa storica

Giallo

Classici

Il nome della rosa

A medieval abbey's first death draws a friar into a library that murders to guard a forbidden text.

di Umberto Eco 1980 552 pagine

4.14

300.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Giallo

Classici

Storia della bambina perduta

di Elena Ferrante • 2014

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

4.46

100.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Storia della bambina perduta

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

di Elena Ferrante 2014 473 pagine

4.46

100.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Pompeii

di Robert Harris • 2003

Pompeii's water supply fails. A young engineer hunts the break as the mountain begins to stir.

3.88

54.000+

Narrativa storica

Storico

Thriller

Pompeii

Pompeii's water supply fails. A young engineer hunts the break as the mountain begins to stir.

di Robert Harris 2003 274 pagine

3.88

54.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Storico

Thriller

Zeno's Conscience

di Italo Svevo • 1923

At his analyst's bidding, Zeno records a life of quitting smoking, one cigarette at a time.

3.77

33.000+

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Letteratura

Zeno's Conscience

At his analyst's bidding, Zeno records a life of quitting smoking, one cigarette at a time.

di Italo Svevo 1923 437 pagine

3.77

33.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Letteratura

The Instrumentalist

di Harriet Constable • 2024

Abandoned in Venice, a color-seeing prodigy composes in secret. Her maestro steals her music.

4.10

11.000+

Narrativa storica

Musica

Women

The Instrumentalist

Abandoned in Venice, a color-seeing prodigy composes in secret. Her maestro steals her music.

di Harriet Constable 2024 336 pagine

4.10

11.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Musica

Women

Machiavelli

di Quentin Skinner • 1981

A Florentine diplomat lost his job, then wrote the rules of power that still scandalize.

3.84

500+

Filosofia

Politica

Storia

Machiavelli

A Florentine diplomat lost his job, then wrote the rules of power that still scandalize.

di Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pagine

3.84

500+ valutazioni

Filosofia

Politica

Storia

The Sicilian

di Mario Puzo • 1984

Michael Corleone must extract a bandit king from Sicily before the Mafia silences him forever.

4.04

31.000+

Crimine

Narrativa storica

Thriller

The Sicilian

Michael Corleone must extract a bandit king from Sicily before the Mafia silences him forever.

di Mario Puzo 1984 416 pagine

4.04

31.000+ valutazioni

Crimine

Narrativa storica

Thriller

Storia del nuovo cognome

di Elena Ferrante • 2012

Lila marries a monster. Elena writes a novel. Neither can own her story without the other.

4.47

200.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Storia del nuovo cognome

Lila marries a monster. Elena writes a novel. Neither can own her story without the other.

di Elena Ferrante 2012 471 pagine

4.47

200.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

SPQR

di Mary Beard • 2015

A thousand-year story of how Rome's genius for inclusion built an empire, then broke its republic.

4.06

83.000+

Storia

Classici

Italia

SPQR

A thousand-year story of how Rome's genius for inclusion built an empire, then broke its republic.

di Mary Beard 2015 606 pagine

4.06

83.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Classici

Italia

The View From Lake Como

di Adriana Trigiani • 2025

A divorced woman inherits a marble business, its secrets, and a second chance in Italy.

3.80

35.000+

Romanticismo

Contemporanea

Women

The View From Lake Como

A divorced woman inherits a marble business, its secrets, and a second chance in Italy.

di Adriana Trigiani 2025 416 pagine

3.80

35.000+ valutazioni

Romanticismo

Contemporanea

Women

Gomorrah

di Roberto Saviano • 2006

Camorra bosses control the factories, ports, and supply chains that dress Europe.

3.80

23.000+

True Crime

Crimine

Italia

Gomorrah

Camorra bosses control the factories, ports, and supply chains that dress Europe.

di Roberto Saviano 2006 320 pagine

3.80

23.000+ valutazioni

True Crime

Crimine

Italia

Il ritratto di matrimonio

di Maggie O'Farrell • 2022

A Renaissance duchess, discovering her husband's intent to kill her, must flee his fortress by dawn.

4.01

200.000+

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Storico

Il ritratto di matrimonio

A Renaissance duchess, discovering her husband's intent to kill her, must flee his fortress by dawn.

di Maggie O'Farrell 2022 355 pagine

4.01

200.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Storico

Five Families

di Selwyn Raab • 2005

Sicilian immigrants built a shadow government Prohibition made rich, and the laws that broke it.

4.15

6.000+

Storia

True Crime

Crimine

Five Families

Sicilian immigrants built a shadow government Prohibition made rich, and the laws that broke it.

di Selwyn Raab 2005 784 pagine

4.15

6.000+ valutazioni

Storia

True Crime

Crimine

Eat, Pray, Love

di Elizabeth Gilbert • 2006

One year in Italy, India, and Indonesia: the journey that taught her how to live again.

3.65

1.000.000+

Memorie

Biografia

Viaggi

Eat, Pray, Love

One year in Italy, India, and Indonesia: the journey that taught her how to live again.

di Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 458 pagine

3.65

1.000.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Biografia

Viaggi

Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città

di Italo Calvino • 1963

A poor laborer chases mushrooms and moonlight through a city that has no room for wonder.

3.83

17.000+

Racconti

Classici

Italian

Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città

A poor laborer chases mushrooms and moonlight through a city that has no room for wonder.

di Italo Calvino 1963 134 pagine

3.83

17.000+ valutazioni

Racconti

Classici

Italian

Pittura ed esperienze sociali nell'Italia del Quattrocento

di Michael Baxandall • 1972

Art appreciation in 15th-century Italy began with a contract and a barrel-gauging formula.

3.95

3.000+

Arte

Storia

Italia

Pittura ed esperienze sociali nell'Italia del Quattrocento

Art appreciation in 15th-century Italy began with a contract and a barrel-gauging formula.

di Michael Baxandall 1972 200 pagine

3.95

3.000+ valutazioni

Arte

Storia

Italia

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

di Italo Calvino • 1979

You, Reader, chase the missing pages of a defective novel into a labyrinth of interrupted stories.

4.01

100.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Realismo magico

Classici

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

You, Reader, chase the missing pages of a defective novel into a labyrinth of interrupted stories.

di Italo Calvino 1979 260 pagine

4.01

100.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Realismo magico

Classici

A Girl Returned

di Donatella Di Pietrantonio • 2017

Returned to her struggling birth family at thirteen, an unexpected sister becomes her anchor.

4.09

29.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Italia

A Girl Returned

Returned to her struggling birth family at thirteen, an unexpected sister becomes her anchor.

di Donatella Di Pietrantonio 2017 167 pagine

4.09

29.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Italia

Murder on Lake Garda

di Tom Hindle • 2024

When a bride is stabbed at her Lake Garda wedding, her guests are stranded with the killer.

3.45

11.000+

Giallo

Thriller

Crimine

Murder on Lake Garda

When a bride is stabbed at her Lake Garda wedding, her guests are stranded with the killer.

di Tom Hindle 2024 464 pagine

3.45

11.000+ valutazioni

Giallo

Thriller

Crimine

Letter to a Child Never Born

di Oriana Fallaci • 1975

Alone and pregnant, a woman writes to the child inside her, weighing existence against nothingness.

4.03

24.000+

Filosofia

Femminismo

Classici

Letter to a Child Never Born

Alone and pregnant, a woman writes to the child inside her, weighing existence against nothingness.

di Oriana Fallaci 1975 128 pagine

4.03

24.000+ valutazioni

Filosofia

Femminismo

Classici

Chiamami col tuo nome

di André Aciman • 2007

For one summer in Italy, a teenager's obsession with the visiting scholar undoes and remakes him.

4.10

600.000+

Romanticismo

Narrativa letteraria

Gay Romance

Chiamami col tuo nome

For one summer in Italy, a teenager's obsession with the visiting scholar undoes and remakes him.

di André Aciman 2007 248 pagine

4.10

600.000+ valutazioni

Romanticismo

Narrativa letteraria

Gay Romance

Only in Naples

di Katherine Wilson • 2015

She arrives in Naples hungry for escape. A lavish Italian mother-in-law feeds her a new life.

3.74

2.000+

Memorie

Italia

Viaggi

Only in Naples

She arrives in Naples hungry for escape. A lavish Italian mother-in-law feeds her a new life.

di Katherine Wilson 2015 287 pagine

3.74

2.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Italia

Viaggi

Villa Coco

di Andrew Sean Greer

A naive American catalogs a Tuscan villa's art for a baronessa who wanted a blond Englishman.

3.72

5.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Immersivi

Villa Coco

A naive American catalogs a Tuscan villa's art for a baronessa who wanted a blond Englishman.

di Andrew Sean Greer 2026 288 pagine

3.72

5.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Camera con vista

di E.M. Forster • 1908

A kiss in a violet field forces an Englishwoman to choose: a cold engagement or a risky truth.

3.89

200.000+

Romanticismo

Classici

Romanzo storico

Camera con vista

A kiss in a violet field forces an Englishwoman to choose: a cold engagement or a risky truth.

di E.M. Forster 1908 119 pagine

3.89

200.000+ valutazioni

Romanticismo

Classici

Romanzo storico

Il paziente inglese

di Michael Ondaatje • 1992

A nurse, a burn patient, a ruined villa: morphine dreams of desert love and hidden identity.

3.86

100.000+

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Classici

Il paziente inglese

A nurse, a burn patient, a ruined villa: morphine dreams of desert love and hidden identity.

di Michael Ondaatje 1992 320 pagine

3.86

100.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Classici

The Secret Supper

di Javier Sierra • 2007

A Dominican sent to decode da Vinci's Last Supper finds his anonymous informant is staging murders.

3.46

6.000+

Narrativa storica

Giallo

Thriller

The Secret Supper

A Dominican sent to decode da Vinci's Last Supper finds his anonymous informant is staging murders.

di Javier Sierra 2007 329 pagine

3.46

6.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Giallo

Thriller

Otello

di William Shakespeare • 1603

A Moorish general weds a Venetian noblewoman, and the ensign he passed over whispers of betrayal.

3.89

400.000+

Classici

Teatro

Dramma

Otello

A Moorish general weds a Venetian noblewoman, and the ensign he passed over whispers of betrayal.

di William Shakespeare 1603 319 pagine

3.89

400.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Teatro

Dramma

The Days of Abandonment

di Elena Ferrante • 2002

Her husband leaves. A woman descends into fury, grief, and the raw fight to reclaim herself.

3.86

60.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Italia

The Days of Abandonment

Her husband leaves. A woman descends into fury, grief, and the raw fight to reclaim herself.

di Elena Ferrante 2002 188 pagine

3.86

60.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Italia

Brunelleschi's Dome

di Ross King • 1999

A goldsmith promised to build the world's largest dome without scaffolding. No one believed him.

3.91

28.000+

Storia

Arte

Italia

Brunelleschi's Dome

A goldsmith promised to build the world's largest dome without scaffolding. No one believed him.

di Ross King 1999 192 pagine

3.91

28.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Arte

Italia

The House of Medici

di Christopher Hibbert • 1975

Why Florence's uncrowned kings were bankers who built the Renaissance and survived assassination.

3.87

8.000+

Storia

Biografia

Italia

The House of Medici

Why Florence's uncrowned kings were bankers who built the Renaissance and survived assassination.

di Christopher Hibbert 1975 364 pagine

3.87

8.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Biografia

Italia

Hotel Portofino

di J.P. O'Connell • 2022

An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.

3.31

5.000+

Narrativa storica

Italia

Storico

Hotel Portofino

An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.

di J.P. O'Connell 2022 330 pagine

3.31

5.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Italia

Storico

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

di Luigi Pirandello • 1992

A glance in the mirror after his wife's teasing, and a man never recognizes himself again.

4.03

31.000+

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Filosofia

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

A glance in the mirror after his wife's teasing, and a man never recognizes himself again.

di Luigi Pirandello 1992 174 pagine

4.03

31.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Filosofia

The Baron in the Trees

di Italo Calvino • 1977

Over a plate of snails, a boy climbs into the trees and never comes down.

4.02

54.000+

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Realismo magico

The Baron in the Trees

Over a plate of snails, a boy climbs into the trees and never comes down.

di Italo Calvino 1977 217 pagine

4.02

54.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Realismo magico

Marco Polo

di Laurence Bergreen • 2007

A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.

3.85

3.000+

Storia

Biografia

Viaggi

Marco Polo

A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.

di Laurence Bergreen 2007 415 pagine

3.85

3.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Biografia

Viaggi

L'Art de la joie

di Goliarda Sapienza • 1998

From Sicilian poverty she rises, loving freely, outliving fascism, learning joy as rebellion.

4.11

10.000+

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Femminismo

L'Art de la joie

From Sicilian poverty she rises, loving freely, outliving fascism, learning joy as rebellion.

di Goliarda Sapienza 1998 640 pagine

4.11

10.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Femminismo

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa

di Elena Ferrante • 2015

Two dolls vanish in a Naples courtyard. What replaces them is a friendship fiercer than love.

4.55

7.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa

Two dolls vanish in a Naples courtyard. What replaces them is a friendship fiercer than love.

di Elena Ferrante 2015 1721 pagine

4.55

7.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Medici Money

di Tim Parks • 2005

The Medici built a throne from double-entry ledgers, papal loans, and strategic art patronage.

3.60

1.000+

Storia

Italia

Economia

Medici Money

The Medici built a throne from double-entry ledgers, papal loans, and strategic art patronage.

di Tim Parks 2005 288 pagine

3.60

1.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Italia

Economia

All Our Yesterdays

di Natalia Ginzburg • 1952

In Mussolini's Italy, a teenager's escape marriage strands her in a village the war invades.

3.99

5.000+

Narrativa storica

Italia

Narrativa letteraria

All Our Yesterdays

In Mussolini's Italy, a teenager's escape marriage strands her in a village the war invades.

di Natalia Ginzburg 1952 300 pagine

3.99

5.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Italia

Narrativa letteraria

Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta

di Elena Ferrante • 2013

Elena flees Naples through writing. Lila remains. Neither can measure her life without the other.

4.36

200.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta

Elena flees Naples through writing. Lila remains. Neither can measure her life without the other.

di Elena Ferrante 2013 418 pagine

4.36

200.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Italia

An Inside Job

di Daniel Silva • 2025

A lagoon body pulls a retired spy into a Vatican conspiracy over a lost Leonardo.

4.40

27.000+

Thriller

Giallo

Suspense

An Inside Job

A lagoon body pulls a retired spy into a Vatican conspiracy over a lost Leonardo.

di Daniel Silva 2025 410 pagine

4.40

27.000+ valutazioni

Thriller

Giallo

Suspense

The Lost Painting

di Jonathan Harr • 2005

A lost Caravaggio, a Dublin Jesuit home, and the restorer who trusted his eye.

3.87

35.000+

Arte

Storia

Giallo

The Lost Painting

A lost Caravaggio, a Dublin Jesuit home, and the restorer who trusted his eye.

di Jonathan Harr 2005

3.87

35.000+ valutazioni

Arte

Storia

Giallo

The Man Without Content

di Giorgio Agamben • 1970

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

4.15

383

Filosofia

Arte

Teoria

The Man Without Content

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

di Giorgio Agamben 1970 144 pagine

4.15

383 valutazioni

Filosofia

Arte

Teoria

Six Characters in Search of an Author

di Luigi Pirandello • 1921

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

3.83

22.000+

Teatro

Classici

Dramma

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

di Luigi Pirandello 1921 86 pagine

3.83

22.000+ valutazioni

Teatro

Classici

Dramma

Venice

di Jan Morris • 1960

Once its fortress, the lagoon now threatens Venice: the life of history's most improbable city.

4.03

1.000+

Viaggi

Storia

Italia

Venice

Once its fortress, the lagoon now threatens Venice: the life of history's most improbable city.

di Jan Morris 1960 336 pagine

4.03

1.000+ valutazioni

Viaggi

Storia

Italia

Still Life

di Sarah Winman • 2021

A Londoner inherits a flat in Florence and gathers the lonely souls who become his family.

4.15

97.000+

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Italia

Still Life

A Londoner inherits a flat in Florence and gathers the lonely souls who become his family.

di Sarah Winman 2021 464 pagine

4.15

97.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Italia

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