"Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre

These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequentl

The family book, a kind of diary written by and about the family for its various members, was established by scholars as a genre in Italy in the 1980s. Although

Through the prism of the rise and fall of Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), this biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the fascist regime other th