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The Discourses

parašė Niccolò Machiavelli • 1517

Rome's class conflict did not sink the republic. Machiavelli argues it is what made it great.

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9 000+

🏛️ Republican Theory 📜 Civic Humanism ⚖️ Mixed Constitution 🛡️ Civic Virtue 🎲 Political Agency

The Discourses

Rome's class conflict did not sink the republic. Machiavelli argues it is what made it great.

parašė Niccolò Machiavelli 1517 544 puslapiai

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9 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Republican Theory 📜 Civic Humanism ⚖️ Mixed Constitution 🛡️ Civic Virtue 🎲 Political Agency

Dingusio vaiko istorija

parašė Elena Ferrante • 2014

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

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100 000+

🖤 Female Friendship 🌋 Naples 👩‍👧‍👧 Motherhood And Ambition 💔 Infidelity 🏘️ Neighborhood Life

Dingusio vaiko istorija

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

parašė Elena Ferrante 2014 473 puslapiai

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100 000+ įvertinimai

🖤 Female Friendship 🌋 Naples 👩‍👧‍👧 Motherhood And Ambition 💔 Infidelity 🏘️ Neighborhood Life

Dieviškoji komedija

parašė Dante Alighieri • 1320

A pilgrim walks the afterlife with Virgil, seeing sin's poetic mirror on the climb to Paradise.

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100 000+

📜 Epic Poem 🗺️ Allegorical Journey 💀 Afterlife Journey 🔥 Circles Of Hell ✨ Divine Vision

Dieviškoji komedija

A pilgrim walks the afterlife with Virgil, seeing sin's poetic mirror on the climb to Paradise.

parašė Dante Alighieri 1320 798 puslapiai

4.09

100 000+ įvertinimai

📜 Epic Poem 🗺️ Allegorical Journey 💀 Afterlife Journey 🔥 Circles Of Hell ✨ Divine Vision

Po raudonu dangumi

parašė Mark T. Sullivan • 2017

A Milan teen pressed into Nazi service spies from the driver's seat of a general's car.

4.43

300 000+

🇮🇹 Italian Resistance 📖 Based On True Story 🕵️ Reluctant Spy 👦 Teenage Hero 💔 War Romance

Po raudonu dangumi

A Milan teen pressed into Nazi service spies from the driver's seat of a general's car.

parašė Mark T. Sullivan 2017 509 puslapiai

4.43

300 000+ įvertinimai

🇮🇹 Italian Resistance 📖 Based On True Story 🕵️ Reluctant Spy 👦 Teenage Hero 💔 War Romance

Limitless. Senza morale

parašė Karim B. • 2024

Her best friend returns from prison a cold gang leader, blaming her for five lost years.

4.44

5 000+

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🫂 Found Family 🖤 Morally Grey Hero 💔 New Adult Angst

Limitless. Senza morale

Her best friend returns from prison a cold gang leader, blaming her for five lost years.

parašė Karim B. 2024

4.44

5 000+ įvertinimai

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🫂 Found Family 🖤 Morally Grey Hero 💔 New Adult Angst

Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città

parašė Italo Calvino • 1963

A poor laborer chases mushrooms and moonlight through a city that has no room for wonder.

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17 000+

🌀 Story Cycle 🌿 Urban Pastoral 😅 Comic Misadventure 🌻 Hapless Idealist 🪶 Gentle Satire

Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città

A poor laborer chases mushrooms and moonlight through a city that has no room for wonder.

parašė Italo Calvino 1963 134 puslapiai

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17 000+ įvertinimai

🌀 Story Cycle 🌿 Urban Pastoral 😅 Comic Misadventure 🌻 Hapless Idealist 🪶 Gentle Satire

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

parašė Italo Calvino • 1979

You, Reader, chase the missing pages of a defective novel into a labyrinth of interrupted stories.

4.01

100 000+

🧩 Fragmented Narratives 👤 Second-Person Narrative 💕 Bookish Romance ❤️ Love Of Reading 🔍 Literary Mystery

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

You, Reader, chase the missing pages of a defective novel into a labyrinth of interrupted stories.

parašė Italo Calvino 1979 260 puslapiai

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🧩 Fragmented Narratives 👤 Second-Person Narrative 💕 Bookish Romance ❤️ Love Of Reading 🔍 Literary Mystery

Pragaras

parašė Dante Alighieri • 1321

Midlife and lost, a poet follows Virgil into Hell to witness the eternal price of sin.

4.03

200 000+

🏛️ Epic Poem 🏰 Medieval Allegory 🔥 Underworld Journey 😈 Circles Of Hell ⚖️ Poetic Justice

Pragaras

Midlife and lost, a poet follows Virgil into Hell to witness the eternal price of sin.

parašė Dante Alighieri 1321 102 puslapiai

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🏛️ Epic Poem 🏰 Medieval Allegory 🔥 Underworld Journey 😈 Circles Of Hell ⚖️ Poetic Justice

The Days of Abandonment

parašė Elena Ferrante • 2002

Her husband leaves. A woman descends into fury, grief, and the raw fight to reclaim herself.

3.86

60 000+

🏚️ Marital Dissolution 🌀 Psychological Unraveling 💔 Abandoned Wife 👩‍👧 Maternal Ambivalence 🔥 Female Rage

The Days of Abandonment

Her husband leaves. A woman descends into fury, grief, and the raw fight to reclaim herself.

parašė Elena Ferrante 2002 188 puslapiai

3.86

60 000+ įvertinimai

🏚️ Marital Dissolution 🌀 Psychological Unraveling 💔 Abandoned Wife 👩‍👧 Maternal Ambivalence 🔥 Female Rage

The Swerve

parašė Stephen Greenblatt • 2011

One manuscript, hunted across monasteries, reintroduced a dangerous idea: the soul is mortal.

3.87

35 000+

💡 History Of Ideas 🖼️ Renaissance Humanism 🏛️ Classical Recovery ✍️ Textual Transmission 📜 Lost Texts

The Swerve

One manuscript, hunted across monasteries, reintroduced a dangerous idea: the soul is mortal.

parašė Stephen Greenblatt 2011 356 puslapiai

3.87

35 000+ įvertinimai

💡 History Of Ideas 🖼️ Renaissance Humanism 🏛️ Classical Recovery ✍️ Textual Transmission 📜 Lost Texts

The Lying Life of Adults

parašė Elena Ferrante • 2019

A Naples girl overhears her father call her ugly. She finds the aunt she's forbidden to know.

3.67

87 000+

🗝️ Family Secrets 🧬 Inherited Trauma 👧 Female Adolescence 💔 Parental Infidelity 🇮🇹 Southern Italy

The Lying Life of Adults

A Naples girl overhears her father call her ugly. She finds the aunt she's forbidden to know.

parašė Elena Ferrante 2019 336 puslapiai

3.67

87 000+ įvertinimai

🗝️ Family Secrets 🧬 Inherited Trauma 👧 Female Adolescence 💔 Parental Infidelity 🇮🇹 Southern Italy

Foucault’s Pendulum

parašė Umberto Eco • 1988

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

3.91

75 000+

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

Foucault’s Pendulum

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

parašė Umberto Eco 1988 623 puslapiai

3.91

75 000+ įvertinimai

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

Six Characters in Search of an Author

parašė Luigi Pirandello • 1921

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

3.83

22 000+

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

parašė Luigi Pirandello 1921 86 puslapiai

3.83

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🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Troubling Love

parašė Elena Ferrante • 1992

A mother drowns in a new bra. Her daughter returns to Naples to find a stranger.

3.25

25 000+

📖 Literary Mystery 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 💭 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Inherited Trauma 👥 Becoming Her Mother

Troubling Love

A mother drowns in a new bra. Her daughter returns to Naples to find a stranger.

parašė Elena Ferrante 1992 144 puslapiai

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📖 Literary Mystery 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 💭 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Inherited Trauma 👥 Becoming Her Mother

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

parašė Marcella Hazan • 1976

The best Italian cooking was never invented in a restaurant. Three techniques unlock the rest.

4.07

26 000+

🇮🇹 Regional Italian Cooking 🏠 Italian Home Cooking 🧱 Flavor Building 🍝 Pasta Making 🥫 Ingredient Quality

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

The best Italian cooking was never invented in a restaurant. Three techniques unlock the rest.

parašė Marcella Hazan 1976 704 puslapiai

4.07

26 000+ įvertinimai

🇮🇹 Regional Italian Cooking 🏠 Italian Home Cooking 🧱 Flavor Building 🍝 Pasta Making 🥫 Ingredient Quality

Becoming Leonardo

parašė Mike Lankford • 2017

Illegitimate, arrested, haunted by brutality: the wounds behind Leonardo da Vinci's genius.

4.00

320

🏛️ Italian Renaissance 🧠 Psychobiography ✍️ Creative Process 💡 Genius Studies 💔 Trauma And Creativity

Becoming Leonardo

Illegitimate, arrested, haunted by brutality: the wounds behind Leonardo da Vinci's genius.

parašė Mike Lankford 2017 304 puslapiai

4.00

320 įvertinimai

🏛️ Italian Renaissance 🧠 Psychobiography ✍️ Creative Process 💡 Genius Studies 💔 Trauma And Creativity

Questa sera è già domani

parašė Lia Levi • 2018

A Jewish boy in 1930s Genoa discovers that being exceptional cannot protect him from history.

3.51

457

🏛️ Fascist Italy 🕍 Jewish Coming Of Age 🌟 Child Prodigy 🕊️ Subtle Resistance 😰 Impending Dread

Questa sera è già domani

A Jewish boy in 1930s Genoa discovers that being exceptional cannot protect him from history.

parašė Lia Levi 2018 224 puslapiai

3.51

457 įvertinimai

🏛️ Fascist Italy 🕍 Jewish Coming Of Age 🌟 Child Prodigy 🕊️ Subtle Resistance 😰 Impending Dread

La monaca

parašė Simonetta Agnello Hornby • 2010

A noble family in decline has only one use for its most rebellious daughter: the convent.

3.51

500+

🏛️ 19th Century Italy ⛪ Convent Life 💔 Love Vs Duty 🕊️ Female Emancipation 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline

La monaca

A noble family in decline has only one use for its most rebellious daughter: the convent.

parašė Simonetta Agnello Hornby 2010 296 puslapiai

3.51

500+ įvertinimai

🏛️ 19th Century Italy ⛪ Convent Life 💔 Love Vs Duty 🕊️ Female Emancipation 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline

City of Echoes

parašė Jessica Wärnberg • 2023

Rome's popes: from a fisherman's grave to global power, the 2,000-year struggle for supremacy.

3.60

🏛️ Papal History 🎖️ Papal Authority ⚔️ Church-State Conflict 🎨 Art Patronage 🎭 Renaissance Papacy

City of Echoes

Rome's popes: from a fisherman's grave to global power, the 2,000-year struggle for supremacy.

parašė Jessica Wärnberg 2023 448 puslapiai

3.60

78 įvertinimai

🏛️ Papal History 🎖️ Papal Authority ⚔️ Church-State Conflict 🎨 Art Patronage 🎭 Renaissance Papacy

The Black Hand

parašė Stephan Talty • 2017

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

3.63

2 000+

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👮 Police History

The Black Hand

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

parašė Stephan Talty 2017 298 puslapiai

3.63

2 000+ įvertinimai

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👮 Police History

Quattro presunti familiari

parašė Daniele Mencarelli • 2026

A skeleton surfaces in rural Italy. Four families wait, each hoping the DNA result is not theirs.

3.37

487

👮 Police Procedural 🔬 Forensic Investigation 💰 Police Corruption 🙏 Atonement 🍂 Meditative Grief

Quattro presunti familiari

A skeleton surfaces in rural Italy. Four families wait, each hoping the DNA result is not theirs.

parašė Daniele Mencarelli 2026 286 puslapiai

3.37

487 įvertinimai

👮 Police Procedural 🔬 Forensic Investigation 💰 Police Corruption 🙏 Atonement 🍂 Meditative Grief

I Promessi Sposi

parašė Alessandro Manzoni • 1827

A young weaver's wedding is blocked by a nobleman, and the priest dares not defy him.

3.89

18 000+

💔 Star-Crossed Lovers ⛓️ Feudal Oppression 🦠 Plague Narrative ✝️ Religious Conversion 😨 Moral Cowardice

I Promessi Sposi

A young weaver's wedding is blocked by a nobleman, and the priest dares not defy him.

parašė Alessandro Manzoni 1827 1096 puslapiai

3.89

18 000+ įvertinimai

💔 Star-Crossed Lovers ⛓️ Feudal Oppression 🦠 Plague Narrative ✝️ Religious Conversion 😨 Moral Cowardice

The Wolf Den

parašė Elodie Harper • 2021

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

4.02

50 000+

🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

The Wolf Den

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

parašė Elodie Harper 2021 464 puslapiai

4.02

50 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

L'eco del boato

parašė Mirco Dondi • 2015

Italy's worst bombings were blamed on the left, but the real bombers wore state uniforms.

4.02

🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🕵️ State Secrecy 💥 False Flag Attacks 🔥 Far-Right Terrorism 📰 Media Manipulation

L'eco del boato

Italy's worst bombings were blamed on the left, but the real bombers wore state uniforms.

parašė Mirco Dondi 2015 414 puslapiai

4.02

49 įvertinimai

🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🕵️ State Secrecy 💥 False Flag Attacks 🔥 Far-Right Terrorism 📰 Media Manipulation

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