Five stories of Ferrara.
by Giorgio Bassani
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The main theme of Giorgio Bassani's novels and short stories, which have earned him wide acclaim outside Italy, has been the advent of anti-Semitism in the provincial Italian city of Ferrara during World War II. Earlier he had a successful career as an editor with a major publishing house, being credited with helping to bring to public notice The Leopard by Tomasi Lampedusa. Bassani edited a literary magazine and was director of the Italian radio-television network. His first collection of short pieces was A City on the Plain, written under the pseudonym Giacomo Marchi. His volumes of poems were finally collected and published in 1963. The stories and novels that were to make him famous abroad began to appear in the 1950s. They include A Prospect of Ferrara (1960), and The Gold Rimmed Spectacles (1960). A film version of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Vittorio De Sica has become a public television classic.
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Five stories of Ferrara.
1971, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English and Italian
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Five stories of Ferrara.: Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
1971, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of Cinque stories ferraresi.
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