Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 52 (1981)
Winners
5 peopleA historical novel that brings eighteenth-century Rome into focus through meticulous detail. A young outsider's education and desire gradually take shape in the atmosphere of the old city.
In the heat of eighteenth-century Rome, learning and desire intersect.
A poetry collection that captures the feeling suspended between order and breakdown through restrained language. Its concise lines quietly bring out the movement of thought and memory.
It traces the outline of order while watching the feelings that spill beyond it.
A substantial study that traces Machiavelli's life and writings from both intellectual and political history. It connects biographical fact with textual reading to build a three-dimensional account of how his political thought took shape.
It links biography and intellectual history to interpret Machiavelli's political imagination.
An experimental metafiction that boldly intersects the narrator's voice with historical figures. It questions the outlines of reality and history while dismantling and rearranging the form of the novel.
A challenging novel in which the narrator and historical figures share the same stage.
A memoir that revisits the years of the Action Party while tracing the ideals and disappointments of postwar Italy. Personal memory anchors a quiet overlap between political fervor and historical weight.
It reconsiders the ideals and disappointments of a political movement through personal memory.