A short-story collection built from fragments of memory and imagination around Modena. Lightness and distortion coexist, making the author's singular gaze especially vivid.

Memory and imagination keep changing shape over the landscape of Modena.

Scrittori negli anni is a collection of essays that traces Italian literature from the First World War to the 1960s through the eye of a contemporary critic. It reads Montale, Saba, Ungaretti, Moravia, Pavese, and Vittorini with unusual precision, bringing both the shape of the works and the atmosphere of their time into view.

A critical collection that redraws the map of 20th-century Italian literature by reading its works from within their own time.

Allergia gathers poems written between the 1950s and 1962 and stands as Massimo Ferretti's signature book. Family memory, provincial life, and unease with the city are voiced in a tone that mixes lightness and shadow, letting the solitude and defiance of a young poet emerge quietly.

A poetry collection that conveys the pain and irreducible force of youth in an intimate, slightly fractured voice.

Un pittore italiano alla corte di Avignone is an art-historical study centered on Matteo Giovannetti, who worked at the papal court in fourteenth-century Avignon. By combining stylistic analysis with historical context, it gives a three-dimensional account of both the artist's work and the city that shaped it.

A classic of art history that uses one painter as a way into the cultural depth of the Avignon court.