The best italian classics

[Gloria Kaszyczky]

As an Italian, I am curious to know what italian classics you have read and what are the best in your opinion. My personal favourites are Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler and in general all of his books are amazing, Boccaccio's Decameron, Collodi's The adventures of Pinocchio and finally Vamba's The diary of Johnny Tempest (Gian Burrasca).

What are yours?

[Michael Villanueva]

The only Italian books I have read are Maciavelli's The Prince and Dante's Inferno. The Prince was straightforward and easily understandable. Inferno I found to be a difficult read. Everything in that book was related to what was contemporary at the time, so I had to either read through passages with little to no understanding of the references or had to constantly be referring to footnotes to try to make sense of the writing.

[Onyinyechi Orji]

I would give it to the God Father. The movie is something I watch with family now and then.

[Carlos Mata Saenz]

I enjoyed The Divine Comedy, read it just after visiting Florence and really liked it.

[Andrew Butchers]

I would give it to the God Father. The movie is something I watch with family now and then.

I am not sure if the Godfather counts as Italian, does it ?

[Carlos Mata Saenz]

The author was half Italian so maybe?

[Andrew Butchers]

Born in the US, writing in English.

I suspect that many Italians would regard it as an American novel.

[Onwuesi Promise]

I don't think I have read any Italian classic yet. I will look forward to reading them. I hope it will be interesting.

[Andrew Butchers]

I noticed this collection on Project Gutenberg - Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 2, Italian and Scandinavian - It's a ciollection from 1907 and includes 8 stories translated from Italian.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70578

[Brigitta Hegyi]

I am learning Italian now and I find these recommendations very useful

[Nati Jiniya]

I have never given an Italian classic a try. It is not that popular in my country I think, but you guys have interesting suggestions.