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Mafia and outlaw stories from Italian life and literature / translations and introduction by Robin Pickering-Iazzi.
Van Pelt Library PQ4250.E5 M34 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Mafia in literature.
- Outlaws in literature.
- Mafia--Italy--History.
- Mafia.
- Crime in popular culture.
- Italian fiction.
- Women and the mafia.
- Italy.
- History.
- Women and the mafia--Italy.
- Italian fiction--20th century--Translations into English.
- Italian fiction--19th century--Translations into English.
- Women--Italy--Biography.
- Women.
- Crime in popular culture--Italy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 180 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Not the Sopranos ... Viewing the Mafia and Outlaws through Italian eyes 3
- The Gold Key (1884) / Giovanni Verga 21
- An Episode of Brigandage (1885) / Carolina Invernizio 26
- The Blessed Paulists (1909-10) / Luigi Natoli (William Galt) 33
- Testagrossa Agrees (1911) / Giuseppe Ernesto Nuccio 51
- The Hired Killer (1928) / Grazia Deledda 80
- The Carob Tree (1993) / Maria Occhipinti 85
- Montelepre (1955) / Anna Maria Ortese 91
- Searching for Palermo (1990) / Amelia Crisantino 100
- The Truvatura (1992) / Silvana La Spina 112
- The Mafia at My Back (1991) / Livia De Stefani 121
- Testimonies
- Maria Saladino 138
- Felicia Impastato 143
- Letizia Battaglia 149
- Rita Atria 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-180).
- ISBN:
- 9780802098344
- 0802098347
- 9780802095619
- 0802095615
- OCLC:
- 174138529
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