Italian novels
Rome-born prose works
Italian novels are novels written in Italian or by Italian authors.
The term appears in literary discussions, reading lists, and bookstore categorization: She's been working through the great Italian novels.
Notable examples span from Manzoni's *The Betrothed* to Ferrante's Neapolitan series.
- The DecameronFourteenth-century Italian novellas
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- family sagaMultigenerational narrative chronicle
- Napoleonic warsFrench expansionist conflicts, 1800s
- historical fictionNovels set in actual pasts
Dante Alighieri · Garibaldi · Mediterranean setting · World War II · la dolce vita · neorealism · Boccaccio · Roman Empire
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