Fulvio Tomizza's 1969 prize-winning novel follows Stefano Marcovich, a young man from Istria, through conflict with his father, a sense of not belonging to his homeland, and a self split between the Slavic and Italian worlds. As a semi-autobiographical novel, it quietly explores the insecurity and guilt of living on a border.

A story of Istrian memory shaped by conflict with the father and a self pulled between two worlds.

This early poetry collection by Giovanni Giudici won the Viareggio Prize in 1969. Through an autobiographical gaze and the instability of everyday language, it brings out the fatigue of urban life, memory, and the texture of work. It turns personal experience into poetry while balancing lightness of voice with critical distance.

From the language of ordinary life, a private history and the pulse of an era slowly come into view.

A landmark study of Baroque literature by Giovanni Getto. It rereads seventeenth-century Italian literature through both prose and poetry, presenting Baroque not as mere ornament but as a form of thought capable of grasping a changing reality.

Baroque emerges here not as a style alone, but as a method for reading a reality in motion.

Franco Cordero’s debut novel turns postwar Italian power politics into an allegory colored by religious pressure and the atmosphere of institutions. His perspective as a jurist feeds the story’s sharp critical force.

It casts the machinery of power in the cold light of allegory.