Venice Tales

Auteur

Katia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Modern Italian Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and formerly Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Dr Pizzi has published extensively on the culture, literature, memory, and history of cities, especially Trieste and the Italian north-eastern borders. Her research interests include modernism, technology, and cities of the future.

Texte du rabat

The first comprehensive collection of short-stories on the city of Venice penned by Italian authors.

Contenu

• 1: Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron

• 2: Francesco Sansovino: Of Venetia, the Noblest City

• 3: Carlo Goldoni: Italian Memoirs

• 4: Giacomo Casanova: The Story of my Life

• 5: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: A Manifesto Against Passéist Venice

• 6: Eugenio Montale: Two Venetian Prose Poems

• 7: Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities

• 8: Tiziano Scarpa: Venice is a Fish

• 9: Paola Tonussi: Silver

• 10: Roberto Ferrucci: Venice is the Lagoon

• 11: Andrea Perin: The Man Who Sleeps in Churches

• 12: Giuseppe O. Longo: A Ghost in Venice

• 13: Isabella Panfido: Lagoonary

• 14: Giancarlo Gemin: The Valleys of Venice