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Italian Reading List, Oxford

Balliol College, University of Oxford. Elena Lombardi, June 2021 Source ©

Italian Language

  • The Ultimate Italian Review and Practice, by David Stillman (McGraw-Hill, 2013)
  • Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian, by Denise De Rome (Routledge, 2015) (NB: third edition).

At a more Advanced level, we also recommend the following reference books:

  • A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian, by Martin Maiden and Cecilia Robustelli (Routledge, 2007; second edition).
  • Using Italian Vocabulary, by Marcel Danesi (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Literature

  • Primo Levi, Se questo e un uomo (1947)
  • Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico Famigliare (1963)
  • Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente (1959)
  • Igiaba Scego, La mia casa `e dove sono (2010)
  • Marco Tullio Giordana, I cento passi, film (2000)

Poetry

  1. The Sonnet - an anthology of sonnets from the 13th to the 20th century will be provided after your arrival in Oxford.
  2. Ungaretti and Montale.
  • G. Ungaretti, Vita d’un uomo: 106 poesie, Mondadori (Oscar series) - in particular the selection from L’allegria.
  • E. Montale, Ossi di seppia, Mondadori (Oscar series)
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