*French and Italian Language and Literature

This encyclopedia is interdisciplinary, covering traditional political, economic and legal concerns as well as popular culture. The entries range from short definitions to in-depth overviews.

An up-to-date introduction (with illustrations) covering modern Italian culture in nineteen chapters. The volume ranges from language, politics, and religious concerns to gender identities, the mass media, and stars.

Bosworth provides a book based on a combination of primary research and secondary material, and examines everything from Italian diplomacy, military power, and commerce to tourism and ideology.
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This author allows readers to survey the regional and provincial characteristics of Italy's 20 regions, including sections on economy, cuisine, and history.
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The volume provides a comprehensive view of modern Italy including information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, language, social and political cultures, the Church, feminism, organized crime, literature, art, the mass media, and music.

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This volume provides an introduction to the major trends in the Italian novel, including some of the most influential and important novelists of the twentieth century such as Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, and Umberto Eco.
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This Cambridge guide provides a survey of Italian writing from its earliest origins up to the present day, including Dante, Petrach, and Boccacio, practitioners of comeedia dell'arte, and more.

The first comprehensive reference work covering Italian literature to be published in English. This volume covers up-to-date assessments on Italian writers from 1200-2000 in over 2,400 entires.