When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Bazzi: Fever

English by Alice Whitmore. UK 2022, 343 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Scribe

Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn't go away - it's constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. ... Weiterlesen

Renato Miracco: Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900

IT 2020, English text, 160 pp. illustrated, hardback, € 39.95
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Damiani

In �Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream�, leading Wilde author Renato Miracco has combined written research with visual iconographic material - from Wilde's earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to his final days in France and Italy in 1900 after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, and his voluntary exile from Great Britain. Italy, and the larger world outside of ... Weiterlesen

Giorgio Bassani: The Novel of Ferrara

Engl. by Jamie McKendrick. USA 2018, 800 pp., hardcover, € 28.95
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W. W. Norton

Now published in English for the first time, �The Novel of Ferrara� brings together Bassani's six classics: �Within the Walls�, �The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles�, �The Garden of the Finzi-Continis�, �Behind the Door�, �The Heron�, and �The Smell of Hay�. Set in Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, these interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters: ... Weiterlesen

Luca Guadagnigno (R): Call Me by Your Name

Frankreich/Italien/USA/Brasilien 2017, engl. OF, engl. UT, 127 min., € 19.99
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Sony

They spend a summer together cycling in the sunshine, playing music and attending to their sophisticated mutual interests, and Elio considers his sexuality while devoting himself to winning Oliver's affections. Elio Perlman is a young man who lives with his parents in their villa in Italy. When Oliver, a graduate student comes to stay with Elio's father, a professor, he ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: Florence, a Delicate Case

USA 2015, 192 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating - and so repellent - to artists and writers over the years? Moving ... Weiterlesen

Giorgio Bassani: The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles

Engl. by Jamie McKendrick. UK 2012, 136 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the young man he pays to be his lover reveals the doctor's homosexuality in a public humiliation that leads into his destruction. As anti-Semitism spreads ... Weiterlesen

Ken Anderson: Sea Change

An Example of the Pleasure Principle. USA 2012, 377 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Starbooks

Four tourists meet in Italy and decide to travel together. Tyler is a bisexual writer with terrible secrets. Josh is a young architecture student - grief-stricken over a man who went back to his wife. Phil and Billie are an older straight couple who bond with Josh because their son had the same name. The four form a real, emotionally ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): In Maremma

Life and a House in Southern Tuscany. USA 2011 (revised, expanded edition), 141 pp. with color photographs, brochure , € 17.95
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Publishers Group West

In 1997 David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell bought a house in southern Tuscany: not a villa but a dilapidated farmhouse dating from the late 1950s and abandoned for more than 20 years. This book recounts the restoration of the house, as well as the gradual process by which two Americans became initiated into a part of Italy - and a ... Weiterlesen

Donald Windham: Two People

USA 2008, 181 pp., brochure, € 28.99
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Mondial

Neglected for over forty years, this gay novel has been republished in a more tolerant climate. �Two People� is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian, but the word �people� in the title is both singular and plural, dealing with two cultures as well as with two individuals. First published in 1965, ... Weiterlesen
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Gustav Hofer und Luca Ragazzi (R): Suddenly, Last Winter (Improvivisamente l'inverno scorso)

I 2008, OF, engl. UT, ital. booklet, 80 Min., € 22.99
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Luca und Gustav sind seit �ber 8 Jahren ein schwules Paar in Rom. Als die Mitt-Links-Regierung Italiens ank�ndigt, ein Partnerschaftsgesetzt einf�hren zu wollen, das auch f�r gleichgeschlechtliche Paare g�ltig sein soll, steht die italienische �ffentlichkeit Kopf. Wilde Debatten, Talkshows, Lobbying (vor allem der Rechten und der katholischen Kirche) - die Ereignisse scheinen sich zu �berschlagen. Der Journalist Gustav Hofer geht ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

USA 2007, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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The author poignantly probes a boy's erotic coming-of-age at his family's Italian Mediterranean home. Elio -17-year-old, extremely well-read, sensitive and the son of a prominent expatriate professor - finds himself troublingly attracted to this year's visiting resident scholar, recruited by his father from an American university. Oliver is 24, breezy and spontaneous, and working on a book about a Greek ... Weiterlesen