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The Leopard

Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Classic Fiction

The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy

aristocracy, gentry, history, italian

The New Science of Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

Philosophy

A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vicos New Science is

enlightenment, epistemology, history, italian

Baudolino

Umberto Eco

Contemporary Fiction

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned

historical, italian, semiotics