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      • The City of the Living

        The City of the Living

        by Nicola Lagioia

        A novel that has all the impact of actual fact, a piece of investigative journalism that hovers between In Cold Blood and True Detective, in twenty-first century Rome. From the murder case that has most profoundly roiled the consciences of Italy in recent years comes a riveting, powerful novel that perfectly recounts our time and the darkest abysses of the human soul. A book you won’t be able to put down until the very last page. A book that’s hard to forget.

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      • Borgo Sud

        Borgo Sud

        by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

        Some families shatter like waves on the shoreline: a sudden crash, followed by a long wake of foam. Other families are as large as an entire neighborhood; at first, they make you feel at home but their embrace can become too confining.Donatella Di Pietrantonio has a unique ability to recount the light and the shadows of our closest ties. The return of the unforgettable characters of Arminuta, the novel which conquered 300,000 readers, won the 2017 Premio Campiello, and has been translated in over 25 countries.

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      • I am the Punishment

        I am the Punishment

        by Giancarlo De Cataldo

        Manrico Spinori della Rocca, Public Prosecutor in Rome. He has a very special, personal method for solving cases: he searches for a corresponding opera. Because there is no human experience – including crime – which hasn’t already been recounted in an opera.

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      • La misura del tempo (The Measure of Time)

        La misura del tempo (The Measure of Time)

        by Gianrico Carofiglio

        One spring afternoon lawyer Guido Guerrieri finds an unexpected fragment of the past in his office. Of course, Lorenza has changed a lot. When they first met, more than twenty years ago, she was a charismatic, ambitious and seductive girl who wanted to become a writer and seemed ready to take on the world. Things took different turn. The years have had an impact on her face, her body, her temper. As if that weren’t enough her son Jacopo, a small-time delinquent, was convicted of first-degree murder. During the trial, the alibi she offered for her son was discredited. So, in the new trial, she turns to Guerrieri as her last hope. Guido does not have a good memory of her, of the way she treated him, of how their relationship ended. Moreover he isn’t convinced of Jacopo’s innocence. However, perhaps to make a melancholy tribute to his lost youth, he decides to accept the case. And so he begins, almost unwillingly, an exciting journey into the depths of justice and its potentially lethal pitfalls. A surprising investigation back and forth across the dangerous border between truth and mere verisimilitude. His old friend Carmelo Tancredi, a retired police inspector, and charming investigator Annapaola Doria are once again by his side. Between surprising nights at the Osteria del Caffellatte and heart-to-heart talks with Mr. Sacco – the punching bag he works out with every evening – Guerrieri realizes that this time, in court, it will take more than just a brilliant defense. A masterful novel. Writing at once unrelenting and full of compassion, striking a balance between the trial story – the purest distillation of human experience – and the sad notes of time as it passes and exhausts itself. “If he wasn’t guilty of that murder, and I can’t imagine how, then it would be such a combination of unfortunate circumstances as to give you the chills.”

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      • L'architettrice

        L'architettrice

        by Melania G. Mazzucco

        In May 1624 a father accompanies his eight-year-old daughter to Santa Severa beach, north of Rome. There, a few months earlier, a chimerical creature ran aground. A whale. Until the day of that discovery, no whales had ever appeared on the coasts of Italy. That’s why the man is there. He wants his daughter to understand that even what is beyond our horizon exists. Giovanni Briccio is a plebeian genius, opposed by the literati and ignored by the court: he is a mattress-maker, a painter of scant fame, a popular playwright, actor and poet, and hidden behind so many pseudonyms, a successful journalist and writer of ballads, songs, and crime stories. The child is his younger daughter, Plautilla. Briccio wants to make her the total artist he has failed to become. He teaches her about painting, mathematics, science. He also imposes upon her the destiny of virginity, launching her as a child prodigy, whom the Madonna has chosen as her messenger. Plautilla, however, is doubly disadvantaged as a female and of humble origins. She struggles in Rome’s artistic circles, dominated by the genius of Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, and conditioned by the patronage of the Barberini family. Her father’s overbearing presence forces her to sacrifice her youth. But the meeting with Elpidio Benedetti, a young aspiring writer, will eventually change their life. Benedetti was chosen by the all-powerful Cardinal Barberini among the family’s clients to act as secretary to a diplomat whom Pope Urban VIII wanted to get out of the way. That diplomat is Giulio Mazzarino, and he keeps Benedetti at his service. Mazzarino’s prodigious rise to the French court will make Elpidio, the awkward son of an embroiderer, a very powerful agent among the artists of Rome – at once an art dealer, trafficker and client. Plautilla Bricci and Elpidio Benedetti, both apparently unarmed due to the dangers of the court, will become the most extravagant couple of seventeenth-century Rome. She a virgin, he an abbot, both of them held to chastity to safeguard the only treasure they possess. They must hide and officially ignore each other for twenty-five years, surviving the Barberini ruin, regime changes, the plague, and Mazzarino’s death, until they can embark on an enterprise that crowns the dream of a lifetime: the construction of a Villa designed, planned and executed by the woman. The first female architect of modern history. In the summer of 1849, among the ruins of that villa – which would become the last outpost of the resistance due to its strategic position – the dream of a generation of twenty-year-old Italians, volunteers who came to Rome to save the achievements of the revolution of 1848, died out. Students, artists and children from good families who found themselves defending up to the last the fragile and lightning-quick experiment of the democratic Roman Republic, the first to recognize equality and freedom in its constitution. L’architettrice is the story of two people’s dreams of changing the world – because whales exist, even if they do not swim in our sea.

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      • Momenti trascurabili Vol. 3 (Negligible Moments Vol. 3)

        Momenti trascurabili Vol. 3 (Negligible Moments Vol. 3)

        by Francesco Piccolo

        What if in life there were no negligible moments? From the hopelessly mismatched socks to the fortune teller who predicts a new love for your wife, by now we know the fun of living every instant (even the ones we would rather forget). And we will never get tired of finding that fun all over again. After the bestsellers Moments of Negligible Happiness and Moments of Negligible Unhappiness, Francesco Piccolo is back with another collection of humorous snapshots that reveal the preciousness of every little fragment of our daily life. The perfect quiet of your breakfast spoiled by the bad mood of your teenager daughter, and the sense of missing you feel having breakfast alone in a hotel. Falling in love with a girl only because she lives in your own building. The day you understand, for the first time, that having fun on New Year’s Eve is not mandatory. The joy to watch a movie with your son – even if it is Transformers 4 – and the instant when, while you are trying to explain him what a phone box is, you realize you are getting old. There is something, in the quality of Piccolo’s gaze, that expands the time of our days, while lending us its lightness and vitality. Until we ask ourselves if all of this is really so negligible. «Every single gesture, the flavors, the air, the weather, the fabric, the street, the person next to you, the scent, the view, the wind, the door, the smile. Everything, everything. Life no longer ends, if you can understand every single moment in one day». «When you are on the street and you are disheartened because you don’t know exactly where to go, and at a crossroads appears that wonderful sign that says: all routes».

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      • Achille e Odisseo (Achilles and Odysseus)

        Achille e Odisseo (Achilles and Odysseus)

        La ferocia e l’inganno (Ferocity and Deception)

        by Matteo Nucci

        What does it mean to be human? Throwing yourself headlong against obstacles at the cost of death, or planning every move wisely? Chasing the truth, or manipulating it? To be Achilles, or Odysseus? Since ancient times, Odysseus and Achilles have been considered the paradigms of two antithetical ways of facing life. On the one hand, a flexible intelligence, capable of adapting to circumstances to bypass obstacles. On the other hand, the ferocity of those who claim to shape reality. Odysseus knows how to wait, how to endure, just to save himself. Not Achilles: he consumes the moment, and devours his own existence. Because he is too frank, instinctive, choleric, at least as Odysseus is prudent, strategic and deceptive. The one facing the future, the other focused on the present, they are both unable to deal with the past. Unlike the invincible superheroes of our times, Homeric heroes are truly human, with their frailties and weaknesses. What is heroism, if not living fully your mortal condition? Through the gaze of Achilles and Odysseus, Nucci explores two different views of the present world. Is it acceptable to lie for a good cause? How can we prevent fear of failure from paralyzing us? When is it time to plan, and when to live to the fullest? The choice is yours: you can confront with the sea like Odysseus, who, as a sailor, observes it and tries to predict the weather and the currents; or instead, like Achilles, you can plunge into the sea and let the waves carry you, living in the moment. With an engaging narrative, Matteo Nucci reveals the eternal dimension of the two great Homeric heroes: opposite human models that go beyond the myth.

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      • Filosofia della casa

        Filosofia della casa

        by Emanuele Coccia

        Philosophical modernity has focused everything on the city, but the future of the world can only be domestic. We need to think about the home: we live in the urgency of making this planet a real home, or rather of making our home a real planet, a space capable of welcoming everyone. Philosophy has always had a special relationship with the city. It was born there, it learned to speak there and it is within its walls that it has always imagined its history and its future. But it is always and only through the mediation of a house that we are in the city: whether it is Paris or Berlin, Tokyo or New York, we are only able to inhabit the cities we live in thanks to bedrooms and kitchens, thanks to chairs, desks, wardrobes, bathtubs and radiators. Yet philosophy has always spoken very little about the home and this neglect is far from innocent: because of it, the home has become a space in which wrongs, oppressions, injustices and inequalities have been hidden, forgotten and reproduced unconsciously and mechanically for centuries. It is in and through the home, for example, that gender inequality has been produced, affirmed and justified. It is in and through the home, and in the order of property it founds and embodies, that society has been organised in economic inequality. It is through the modern home – a space in which, with a few very rare exceptions, only human beings can stay – that the radical opposition between human and non-human, between the city and the forest, between the “civilised” and the savage, has been constructed and reinforced. Forgetting the home was a way for philosophy to forget itself. One of the most eclectic and esteemed European intellectuals of his generation tackles, with the tools of philosophy and his trademark originality, the theme of the home, the threshold between us and the rest of reality, the inexhaustible attempt to overlap our happiness with the world. And he writes an exceptional book: highly refined and prodigiously pop.

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      • Con passi giapponesi (Japanese Steps)

        Con passi giapponesi (Japanese Steps)

        by Patrizia Cavalli

        If poetry, as someone has said, is the only possible science, this poet’s prose reveals figurative, speculative and satirical abilities “In these pages, we find the parallel and backward moral story that has accompanied for decades the work of one of the greatest contemporary poets. Not exactly narrative nor non-fiction, the analytical, visionary, perceptive and syntactic genius which here surprises the reader, has no precedent in twentieth-century Italian literature, if not perhaps in the prose of Roberto Longhi, Elsa Morante, Goffredo Parise.However, these are more partial affinities rather than derivations: because in each of its chapters – each in its own way and with a different style, in autobiographical fragments, anecdotal parables, portraits and micro-philosophies of love, envy or sensory ecstasy – Con passi giapponesi obeys a single commandment: “I must understand”.From the first text that gives the volume its title, the reader finds himself contemplating a comic-tragic world, labyrinthine to the point of dizziness, in which passions without success and desperate, forced social mannerisms come on stage, while life bleeds out, faking it.” Alfonso Berardinelli

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      • The black sea of indifference
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        The black sea of indifference

        by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati

        Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.

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      • The Calling
        History
        April 2016

        The Calling

        Stories of Jesuits in the 16th and 17th Centuries

        by Adriano Prosperi

        This book explains not who the Jesuits were, but how their awareness of having become Jesuits was constructed. It does so on the basis of a collection of documents which have often been referred to as ‘autobiographies’, in fact individual members’ accounts of how they received their calling. Each Jesuit had to describe in writing how the divine call had come to him, what signs had preceded it and how he had broken away from his ‘fleshly’ family to become a member of the Company. Their acute awareness of the definitive nature of the close pact they had established with God by becoming members of the army of the Lord, made the Jesuits new, unusual figures, unprecedented in the history of Christian religious orders: men trained to carry out arduous missions into the most distant countries of the world, in contact with unknown cultures, without any weakening of their ties with the Company; a classic case is Matteo Ricci. Accepting their calling meant adopting a special life, characterized by a modern form of asceticism: a total break with the past and their families, a readiness to go wherever they were sent, as new apostles.

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      • Pontius Pilate
        History
        January 2017

        Pontius Pilate

        Deciphering a Memory

        by Aldo Schiavone

        The biography of Pontius Pilate is the crucial dramatic point of intersection between Christian memory as preserved in the Gospels, Jewish history and Roman imperial history. It includes an episode of unparalleled importance in the history of the West – the death of Jesus. Pilate is the only historical figure whom Christian tradition records as having had a long dialogue with Jesus. He appears to have uttered and listened to words, made and witnessed gestures, that have accompanied us for two thousand years. Who was he really? A despot? An accomplice? A bungler? Why do the Gospels flood his figure in a light that blurs its outlines, making all his features ambiguous and elusive? What are they trying to hide? The book approaches the theme as if for the first time. It does not ignore the huge mass of previous studies, but filters and reworks them in a reconstruction that sets out simply to describe and explain what might have happened. In so doing, however, it offers a surprising solution to an enigma.

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      • The End of the Past
        History
        July 2020

        The End of the Past

        Ancient Rome and the Modern West

        by Aldo Schiavone

        This searching interpretation of past and present addresses fundamental questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did ancient culture, once so strong and rich, come to an end? Was it destroyed by weaknesses inherent in its nature? Or were mistakes made that could have been avoided—was there a point at which Greco-Roman society took a wrong turn? And in what ways is modern society different? Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry. Also crucial are aspects of the ancient mentality: disdain for manual work, a preference for transcending (rather than transforming) nature, a basic belief in the permanence of limits. Schiavone’s lively and provocative examination of the ancient world, “the eternal theater of history and power,” offers a stimulating opportunity to view modern society in light of the experience of antiquity.

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      • From Rights to Duties to Justice
        Politics & government
        March 2017

        From Rights to Duties to Justice

        by Gustavo Zagrebelsky

        Human rights have not benefited everyone in the same way; on the contrary, they have benefited some, the few, at the expense of others, the many. They have not given us a world that even the majority of human beings, can recognize as better. When ‘governments and great experts and smiling politicians and millionaire foundations’ discuss hunger and its causes, they always concentrate on objective factors, beyond the reach of any structural political intervention. Few mention financial speculation which raises the prices of food and medicines, causing famines and epidemics; neo-colonial policies for the control of sources of energy; the unlimited exploitation of natural resources; the colossal mass of investments that are diverted from purposes of general interest to research into and production of arms. The extent of this failure of humanity is documented by facts, records, numbers. We inhabitants of the privileged part of the world live fairly contentedly, every day, with the occasional journalistic report and the occasional documentary: media which tend to enhance indifference, by isolating the dramas in the vast and harmless field of literature and film, rather than shaking the conscience of the world, which contents itself with contemplating its rights, indeed its ‘culture of rights’. Literature nourishes intellects, but practice, and, above all, rulers who exercise power, have little time for literature.

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      • A Scattered Crowd
        History
        May 2019

        A Scattered Crowd

        Doctors and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Italy

        by Adriano Prosperi

        With the rise of statistics, many modern states made it a tool of government and a link between the authorities and their subjects (or citizens). The case of Italy was that of a composite world where the early emergence of statistical science (with Melchiorre Gioia) was accompanied by many studies on the reality of the populations. Naples under the Bourbons and under the reign of Gioacchino Murat, and central-northern Italy under Napoleon, were the fields of application of studies which covered everything from folklore to material conditions. The growth of a high-level modern medical science, in contact with the scientific cultures of Germany, France and Britain, provided the new Italian nation with a means of analysing the social and sanitary problems of the country. A rich documentation of all this survives in the studies of the socio-sanitary conditions of the inhabitants of Italian towns and communes which began in the early nineteenth century and continued for nearly a century. The statistical study of sanitary and hygienic problems, commissioned by Italian governments and carried out by the corporation of local doctors highlighted the abject conditions in which most of the Italian population lived from many points of view: malnutrition, disease, alchoholism, illiteracy, high infant mortality, short average lifespan, devastating death rate from malaria, cholera, pellagra, etc. But the economic policy of the ruling classes – big landowners in the south and the entrepreneurial middle classes in the north – chose to turn Italy into an economic and military power, leaving the agricultural world to fend for itself. And medical science was split between those who, like Camillo Golgi, dedicated their lives to solving the problem of malaria, and those who, like Paolo Mantegazza, offered the culture of a rising middle class intriguing opportunities to explore the mysteries of pleasure and sexual hygiene.

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      • Crime and Forgiveness
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2013

        Crime and Forgiveness

        The Death Penalty in the Mental Horizon of Christian Europe (14th–18th Century)

        by Adriano Prosperi

        During the centuries of the ‘long Middle Ages’, a great public spectacle gradually acquired a structure: death by justice. In the night between the 1st and 2nd May 2011, the President of the United States Barack Obama made a special appearance on television and announced to the nation and the world the death of Osama bin Laden. His first words were: ‘Justice has been done’ – ‘justice’, which in Italian has the same etymological root as the verb ‘giustiziare’, to execute. This single sentence brings out the fundamental question underlying the function of justice: is it a physical elimination of the criminal or a punishment which enables that person to repent and achieve moral regeneration? Is it an act of revenge or forgiveness? In the light of this history, Adriano Prosperi investigates the complex links with condemned people which our culture gradually established, until it eventually arrived at a Christianization of death as punishment: a public spectacle where the Christian cross occupies a central place in a great, cruel festival, and where the offering up of the criminal’s life was celebrated on the scaffold as a way of expiating the individual’s sins and purifying the community from evil.

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      • The New Populism
        Society & culture: general
        April 2017

        The New Populism

        Democracy Stares into the Abyss

        by Marco Revelli

        A crisp and trenchant dissection of populism today. The word “populism” has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines “populism”? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality? Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called “populist” movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers that asserted their political roles for the first time, in today’s post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included. Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to –isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the “formless form” that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism is the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative. (From the Verso Books presentation)

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      • The Plan
        Society & culture: general

        The Plan

        by Marco Belpoliti

        The plan is a journey like those of the travelling salesmen who used to follow the country roads. The geographical space across which the book moves is the Po plain; the cities it describes are Milan, Modena, Mantua, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna, Bologna, and others. In each of these fascinating urban worlds history has created unique characteristics. Cultural signals evoke today and yesterday. Figures of artists, actors, directors, novelists, poets, strange and bizarre individuals parade in front of the reader’s eyes like characters out of a Fellini film. Some are still alive, many are dead, but all belong to an artistic and intellectual world with clearly recognizable features. Each character has a story set on the banks of the Po, or under the arcades of the cities scattered across its plain. They are stories of encounters, for the material from which the author draws inspiration comes from his friendships, associations and collaborations. So Pianura is an account of an age of art and creativity from the 1970s to the present day. Like Claudio Magris’s Danubio, it is a journey through cultural memory which conjures up a surprising portrait of those regions which have known the ideals of secular emancipation and communist utopia, and today are experiencing a regression into political localism. A portrait of agricultural countryside inhabited by characters who people an extraordinary narrative, a sentimental journey, an assemblage of fragments of memory which together form one of the most original cultural novels of recent years.

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      • Harbingers of Hope
        Peace studies & conflict resolution
        August 2006

        Harbingers of Hope

        Peace Initiatives in Colombia

        by Virginia M. Bouvier

        Nearly half-a-century old, the Colombian conflict has spawned a long tradition of peace initiatives that offer innovative alternatives to violence. Peace Initiatives in Colombia, a conference sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace and the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, November 19–20, 2005, analyzed these initiatives from various perspectives and identified the variables and strategies relevant to their success. The conference brought together contributors to a book on Colombian peace initiatives being edited by Virginia M. Bouvier, a Latin American specialist and senior program officer of the Jennings Randolph Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Conference speakers included some twenty individuals from a broad range of academic fields, as well as human rights and development specialists, photographers, and political and military analysts from Colombia, the United States, and Europe. A list of conference participants, about half of whom are current or former USIP grantees or peace scholars, is at the end of this report. The conference was organized by Dr. Bouvier and Dr. Mary Roldán. Additional sponsors included Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center; its departments of development sociology, government, history, and anthropology; the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies; the Institute for European Studies; the Johnson School of Management; the Peace Studies Program; the Society for the Humanities; the Committee on U.S.–Latin American Relations (CUSLAR); and the Colombian Student Association, as well as Syracuse University ’s Program for Analysis and Resolution of Conflict (PARC). This report is based primarily on presentations and papers prepared for the conference, and participants have reviewed it.

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