The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to ...

Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.

The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

A close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in Rossellini's evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Machine to ...

A History of Italian Cinema is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language >

Umberto Eco is Italy's most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his ...

An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works.

Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men ...