Mafia and outlaw stories from Italian life and literature
By: translations and introduction by Robin Pickering-Iazzi.
Contributors: Pickering-Iazzi, Robin.
Series: Toronto Italian studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780802098344; 9780802095619
Subjects: Mafia in literature.; Outlaws in literature.; 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.; Crime in popular culture -- Italy.
Genres: Translations into English.; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-180).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Not the Sopranos; title: viewing the Mafia and outlaws throught Italian eyes; title: The Gold key / Giovanni Verga; title: An episode of brigandage (1855) / Carolina Invernizio; title: The blessed Paulists (1909-10) / Luigi Natoli (William Galt); title: Testagrossa agrees (1911) / Giuseppe Ernesto Nuccio; title: The hired killer (1928) / Grazia Deledda; title: The carob tree (1993) / Maria Occhipinti; title: Montelepre (1955) / Anna Maria Ortese; title: Searching for Palermo (1990) / Amelia Crisantino; title: The truvatura (1992) / Silvana La Spina; title: The Mafia at my back (1991) / Livia De Stefani; title: Testimonies: Maria Saladino, Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, Rita Atria.