Italy's hidden classics, newly in English.
A Sienese comedy of 1532 whose disguised heroine found her way into Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, a red-shirt's memoir of Garibaldi's Thousand, Manzoni's tragedies and his ode on Napoleon's death, Alfredo Oriani's novels, Ada Negri's poems and brigands on the papal frontier. 41 books, many of them in English for the first time.
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