Italian Studies

Stop memorizing Italian. Start thinking in it - with native voices and an immersive sound experience designed for retention. Most Italian courses teach you pieces - isolated words, disconnected grammar, phrases you forget the moment you close the app. This audiobook is built differently. Instead of memorization, you'll build the language from the inside out - using active recall, spaced repetition, and immersive context so every word, sentence, and story compounds naturally. By the end, you won't just recognize Italian. You'll feel how it works.

A complete novel in real Italian for intermediate readers (B1-B2), with everything you need to read it without stopping to look words up. Rome, 59 BC. In the Forum, a gladiator called the Wolf spares the life of a young fighter who has stopped defending himself, and disobeys the sponsor of the games in front of half the city. Watching from the stands is a thin man in a plain toga who neither cheers nor whistles. He owns the school. His name is Julius Caesar. Before Sulla’s proscriptions, the Wolf was Gaius Norbanus, the son of a consul. Now he is a man without a name. Caesar offers him a ...

Reprint of the classic textbook: 10th Anniversary 2021 Edition. Chicago history/culture with an Italian flair! There is something for everybody in this eclectic volume. Every reader will find a topic or a writer that s/he wants to know more about. Publication of Reconstructing Italians in Chicago is a major step toward making Chicago's Italians the best documented (and best understood) in the nation. It is a gateway to both the academic and the personal exploration of Italians in Chicago, loaded with references that lead the reader to just about every source of information on the subject. ...

This book is a collection of the funniest and most interesting folklorist idioms that will allow you to discover hidden aspects of the Italian culture. Each idiom is presented with its translation, historic and geographical background, and an explanation of its meaning. The goal of this collection is to give the reader a deeper understanding of the Italian language and interpretation of life.

Improve your Italian vocabulary and absorb real grammar naturally while solving a thrilling murder mystery set in Rome! When a cold case resurfaces in the historic streets of Trastevere, American journalist Arthur Finch starts asking the questions nobody wants to hear. To find the truth, he will need his instinct, his notebook — and the help of Rome's most feared prosecutor. Specially written for A2-B1 (Pre-Intermediate) language students, this graded reader combines the suspense of a classic detective story with a complete, structured learning framework. Designed for maximum ...

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history...

"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to...

Master intermediate Italian naturally with Learn Italian with 5 Romantic Thrillers: The Complete Italian Secrets Bundle. Are you tired of dry grammar textbooks or Italian novels that are too difficult to follow? This comprehensive collection bridges the gap by combining real, gripping fiction with structured pedagogical tools. Designed specifically for B1-B2 language learners, this bundle features five standalone mystery-romance novels set in iconic Italian cities, allowing you to build vocabulary and fluency without feeling overwhelmed. Why this Italian Graded Reader Bundle is recommended ...

Lisbon, 1483. Giacomo is seventeen, an apprentice cartographer with nothing to lose, when he redoes a colleague's calculation for fun and finds it wrong: the distance to Asia everyone is betting on is less than a quarter of what it should be. The colleague's name is Cristoforo Colombo, and he already knows. For nine years Giacomo watches the project be rejected, mocked and finally funded almost by accident, ends up the one man aboard the Santa Maria trusted with the true, secret logbook of the voyage — and after the landfall of 12 October 1492, does a second calculation he never tells ...

Discover Italy Through Its Festivals — 8 Stories at A2 Level Every culture reveals itself through what it celebrates. In Book 4 of Learn Italian with Short and Captivating Stories, you will follow eight characters across Italy's most beloved traditions — from a Neapolitan Christmas Eve to a New Year's Eve party in Rome, from the masks of Venice and Viareggio to the women's marches of March 8th, from Holy Week in Taranto to an Easter Monday picnic in Puglia, from a morning on the Amalfi Coast making limoncello to the Republic Day celebrations in Rome, all the way to a November 2nd visit ...

At dawn, the Colosseum is the most beautiful place in the world. But this morning, in an area closed “for restoration,” a man lies on the ground: Davide Ricci, tour guide, thirty-two years old. A workplace accident, they say immediately. But Davide was not supposed to be there. And above all: why does a tour guide enter a construction site at night? Arthur Finch knew Davide: he was the best guide in Rome, and a month earlier he had told him a strange sentence: “Arthur, the walls of the Colosseum talk. The problem is what they say about money.” Meanwhile, someone has decided to stop ...

Learn Italian the way your brain loves: with a story you can't put down. Antoine says he is a French consultant on holiday in Salerno. His black notebook tells a different story. On the beach he meets Margherita, a girl trapped in a golden cage: a powerful father, an imposed engagement, a mother who died in circumstances never explained. As they grow closer, a black Mercedes watches from a distance... This is a real romantic thriller written especially for Italian learners at level B1-B2 (intermediate). No simplified "textbook stories": a true novel with short sentences, controlled grammar ...

A retired detective. A missing brother. And the most beautiful lake in Italy hiding a very dark secret. Edward Blake arrives at Lake Como for a long-awaited reunion with his estranged brother Robert. But paradise turns dangerous when Robert disappears, leaving only a cryptic note: «Find the key where the sun meets the water.» What follows pulls Edward into a web of stolen jewels, old betrayals and shadowy figures — from the ruthless gang leader Carlo Ferretti to a corrupt inspector named Marco Ricci. To save his brother, Edward must face old wounds and new dangers in one of Italy's most...

A retired Scotland Yard detective. A stolen painting. And a language you have always wanted to speak. Edward Blake came to Tuscany for a quiet life — art, good food, and train journeys through the Italian countryside. Then a priceless painting disappears from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. And Edward is the prime suspect. Guided by cryptic notes from a mysterious woman named Cassandra, he is pulled into a web of intrigue that stretches from the historic streets of Florence to the port of Livorno — all orchestrated by a legendary thief known only as «The Prince of Thieves». Furto al ...

Rome, 1849. Nicolò is eighteen and has spent three months learning to photograph the breaches French cannons open in the walls every night, for a master photographer who taught him one rule above all: a steady hand is rarer than a rifle. Then a courteous officer starts asking for an extra copy of every print, always of the same weak points in the walls, and one evening a print goes missing that nobody remembers taking. Eleven years later Nicolò is his own master, following Garibaldi’s campaign in Sicily with a camera on his back. In a crowd of newly arrived officers he sees a face he ...

A cropped photograph, a photo studio to close, and a secret kept for twenty-seven years. When Chiara returns to Salerno to clear out her late father’s photography studio, she expects nothing more than ten days of hard work and a bittersweet walk down memory lane. Assisting her is her niece Sara, a talented young graphic designer eager to uncover her family’s past. But when an unseen detail on the edge of an old 1999 photograph resurfaces, Chiara is forced to confront a decision she has spent nearly three decades avoiding—and the false accusation that permanently altered her sister ...

George Eliot è lo pseudonimo di Marie Anne Evans. Fu iniziato nel 1869, e poi ripreso ne 1871 fondendo tra loro diverse storie che presero l'aspetto di un romanzo a puntate. La prima edizione in un unico volume venne pubblicata nel 1874, ottenendo un'ampia diffusione.

The enemy Rome feared most was not across the sea. It was born in the mountains of Italy. Before Rome became the dominant power of the ancient world, it faced a rival that tested its strength, challenged its ambitions, and changed the way it fought forever. The Samnites were more than just an opponent on Rome’s path to expansion. They were a proud and resilient people whose battles with Rome shaped the future of Italy. Their story is one of courage, survival, sacrifice, and the struggle of a nation determined to protect its independence. Few people know that some of Rome’s greatest ...

Arthur Finch has stayed in Rome. After the Trastevere case, the American journalist is almost famous: his article "The Port of Fogs" made noise around half the world. But the calm does not last. Bruno Castelli, an elderly art restorer, is found dead in his workshop behind the Vatican walls. An accident, says the first report. But only one painting is missing from the workshop: a small "school" Madonna, a "minor" painting. Why does a thief enter a workshop full of treasures and take exactly that one? Prosecutor Luisa Corna has the file on her desk. Arthur has his uncomfortable questions. The...

A famous relic. A list of seven names. A professor who never cancels an appointment. Turin, January. Sofia, a young researcher, finds a register that should not exist in the archives of Palazzo Madama. Luca has been following Professor Trevisan for six years, since his sister died with strange symbols around her. And Inspector Marco Ferrante keeps a secret file he is not allowed to open. Three threads, one cathedral, one truth buried for thirty years. A real mystery novel written for Italian learners at level B1-B2 (60% B1 / 40% B2 — step two of the series progression). Inside the book: ...