Query: Novels set in Trieste or in the Renaissance or Italian autobiographical novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Abyss (Yourcenar novel)
Ernesto (novel)
Romola
Una Vita
Zeno's Conscience
New Finnish Grammar
Leo Africanus (novel)
The Hills of Varna
Then and Now (novel)
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life
Rinascimento privato
Good Girls Don't Wear Trousers
I Dreamed of Africa (book)
The Medici Seal
Evidence from documents: The Abyss (Yourcenar novel): Its narrative centers on the life and death of Zeno, a physician, philosopher, scientist and alchemist born in Bruges during the Renaissance era.
Ernesto (novel): The events in the novel take place in the course of a month in 1898 in Trieste.
Romola: The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history.
Una Vita: Alfonso Nitti, a shy young intellectual with literary aspirations, leaves his home in the country where his mother lives to go to Trieste - though the city is not named - and work in a white collar job, as a copy clerk in Maller's bank.
Zeno's Conscience: Zeno goes on to relate the business partnership between him and Guido. The two men set up a merchant business together in Trieste.
New Finnish Grammar: The plot begins in 1943 Trieste, Italy, where a military doctor, originally from Finland but enlisted in a German hospital ship, finds an unidentified man who is seriously wounded.
Leo Africanus (novel): While filled with biographical hypotheses and historical speculations, the book offers a vivid description of the Renaissance world, with the decline of the traditional Muslim kingdoms and the hope inspired by the Ottoman Empire, as it grew to threaten Europe and restore Muslim unity.
The Hills of Varna: It is an adventure story based on the revival of classical scholarship in the Renaissance.
Then and Now (novel): ''Then and Now''''' is a historical novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Set mainly in Imola, Italy, but also in other Italian cities, including Machiavelli's hometown Florence during the Renaissance,
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life: '''''Nothing Like the Sun''''' is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964. It tells the story of Shakespeare's life with a mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The title refers to the first line of Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", in which Shakespeare describes his love for a dark-haired woman.
Rinascimento privato: '''''Rinascimento privato''''' (''Private Renaissance'') was the last novel written by the Italian writer Maria Bellonci
Good Girls Don't Wear Trousers: '''''Good Girls Don't Wear Trousers''''' (Italian: '''''Volevo i pantaloni''''') is an autobiographical novel by Lara Cardella. It was published by Mondadori in 1989, when the author was only 19.
I Dreamed of Africa (book): '''''I Dreamed of Africa''''' is a memoir by Italian writer Kuki Gallmann. The book focuses on Gallmann's lifelong interest in Africa.
The memoir ranges from her childhood's fascination with the continent (whence the title) to her 1972 decision to relocate to Kenya to run a farm in the Laikipia plain with her husband and son.
The Medici Seal: Set among the cultural life and political intrigues of Renaissance Italy, it is the story of a boy who initially calls himself Matteo and his master Leonardo da Vinci.