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Christ Stopped at Eboli

Christ Stopped at Eboli
  • Author(s): Carlo Levi
  • Location(s): Aliano
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

‘We’re not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.’ Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by...

Murder in Matera

Murder in Matera
  • Author(s): Helene Stapinski
  • Location(s): Matera
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

A writer goes deep into the heart of Italy to unravel a century-old family mystery in this spellbinding memoir that blends the suspenseful twists of Making a Murderer and the emotional insight of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Since childhood,...

Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village

Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
  • Author(s): David Yeadon
  • Location(s): Aliano
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Award-winning travel writer and illustrator, David Yeadon embarks with his wife, Anne on an exploration of the “lost word” of Basilicata, in the arch of Italy’s boot. What is intended as a brief sojourn turns into an intriguing residency...

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