Tick off each book as you read it. 6 of these 52 Italian classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/italian, with author guides and links to the rest.
The Middle Ages & Renaissance
☐1.Vita Nuova — Dante Alighieri (1294)
☐2.Inferno — Dante Alighieri (1320) · free on Pagine
☐3.Purgatorio — Dante Alighieri (1320)
☐4.Paradiso — Dante Alighieri (1320)
☐5.The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio (1353) · free on Pagine
☐6.Canzoniere — Petrarch (1374)
☐7.Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto (1516)
☐8.The Mandrake — Niccolò Machiavelli (1524)
☐9.The Book of the Courtier — Baldassare Castiglione (1528)
☐10.The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli (1532) · free on Pagine
☐11.Jerusalem Delivered — Torquato Tasso (1581)
☐12.The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini — Benvenuto Cellini (1728)
The 18th & 19th centuries
☐13.The Servant of Two Masters — Carlo Goldoni (1746)
☐14.On Crimes and Punishments — Cesare Beccaria (1764)
☐15.The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis — Ugo Foscolo (1802)
☐16.The Story of My Life — Giacomo Casanova (1822)
☐17.The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni (1827) · free on Pagine
☐18.Canti — Giacomo Leopardi (1835)
☐19.The House by the Medlar Tree — Giovanni Verga (1881)
☐20.The Adventures of Pinocchio — Carlo Collodi (1883) · free on Pagine
☐21.Heart — Edmondo De Amicis (1886) · free on Pagine
☐22.Mastro-don Gesualdo — Giovanni Verga (1889)
☐23.The Tigers of Mompracem — Emilio Salgari (1900)
The early 20th century
☐24.The Late Mattia Pascal — Luigi Pirandello (1904)
☐25.The Montessori Method — Maria Montessori (1912)
☐26.Reeds in the Wind — Grazia Deledda (1913)
☐27.Six Characters in Search of an Author — Luigi Pirandello (1921)
☐28.Zeno’s Conscience — Italo Svevo (1923)
☐29.Cuttlefish Bones — Eugenio Montale (1925)
☐30.The Time of Indifference — Alberto Moravia (1929)
☐31.Fontamara — Ignazio Silone (1933)
Postwar & modern Italian classics
☐32.Christ Stopped at Eboli — Carlo Levi (1945)
☐33.If This Is a Man — Primo Levi (1947)
☐34.The Moon and the Bonfires — Cesare Pavese (1950)
☐35.Italian Folktales — Italo Calvino (1956)
☐36.That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana — Carlo Emilio Gadda (1957)
☐37.The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino (1957)
☐38.The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
☐39.The Day of the Owl — Leonardo Sciascia (1961)
☐40.The Garden of the Finzi-Continis — Giorgio Bassani (1962)
☐41.Telephone Tales — Gianni Rodari (1962)
☐42.Family Lexicon — Natalia Ginzburg (1963)
☐43.The Truce — Primo Levi (1963)
☐44.Accidental Death of an Anarchist — Dario Fo (1970)
☐45.Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino (1972)
☐46.History — Elsa Morante (1974)
☐47.The Periodic Table — Primo Levi (1975)
☐48.If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller — Italo Calvino (1979)
☐49.The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco (1980)
☐50.Pereira Maintains — Antonio Tabucchi (1994)
☐51.Silk — Alessandro Baricco (1996)
☐52.My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante (2011)
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