RECOMMENDED READING

     The books listed below are posted to familiarize you with the region and the country and will make your stay in Italy a more rewarding experience.

Italian Classics

Ovid: Metamorphoses
Sallust: Histories
Dante: Divine Comedy
Petrarch: il Canzoniere
Boccaccio: Decameron
Macchiavelli: The Prince
Giorgio Vasari: The Lives of the Artists
Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso
Alessandro Manzoni: The Betrothed
Primo Levi: If this is a Man
Cesare Pavese: Selected Works
Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli

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Alexander Blok: Selected Poems
Joseph Brodsky: Watermark
Lucy E. Vogel: Aleksander Blok: The Journey to Italy with English Translation of the Poems and Prose Sketches on Italy
Ignazio Silone: Uscita di Sicurezza