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Poem Strip By Dino Buzzati Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss Buzzati's pioneering graphic novel relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of an ultra-mod, hyper-sexy 1960s Milan and shows the influence of his one-time collaborator Federico Fellini. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Pinocchio By Carlo Collodi Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock Introduction by Umberto Eco Afterword by Rebecca West This new translation of Pinocchio will forever banish the saucer-eyed Disney character from your mind (not to mention the advice-spouting Talking Cricket, whom Pinocchio squashes with a mallet in chapter 4). In his place is Collodi's greedy, charming, subversive boy-puppet and a dreamlike story that flaunts its commedia dell'arte roots. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana By Carlo Emilio Gadda Translated from the Italian by William Weaver Introduction by Italo Calvino The modernist masterpiece of Italian literature and the most metaphysical of all metaphysical detective stories investigates a brutal murder and the ultimate impossibility of ever establishing the truth. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

Kaputt By Curzio Malaparte Translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno Afterword by Dan Hofstadter Reveals the horrors of war from within the heart of corruption. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Late Mattia Pascal By Luigi Pirandello Translated from the Italian by William Weaver Introduction by Charles Simic Nobel Prize–winner Luigi Pirandello is at once the most teasing and profound of modern masters, a connoisseur of ironies and impossibilities, and The Late Mattia Pascal is undoubtedly his most polished performance as a writer of fiction. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Inferno of Dante Alighieri New translation by Ciaran Carson This is a truly original retelling of Dante's epic journey that will surprise and renew the twenty-first-century reader's faith in the art of translation. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Moro Affair By Leonardo Sciascia Translated from the Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch Introduction by Peter Robb The Moro Affair presents a chilling picture of how a secretive government and a ruthless terrorist faction help to keep each other in business. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

The Day of the Owl By Leonardo Sciascia Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Anthony Oliver Introduction by George Scialabba This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Equal Danger By Leonardo Sciascia Translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke Introduction by Carlin Romano District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Price: $9.71 (25% off)

The Moon and the Bonfires By Cesare Pavese Translated from the Italian by R.W. Flint Introduction by Mark Rudman The Moon and the Bonfires is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

The New Life By Dante Alighieri Translated from the Italian by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Preface by Michael Palmer The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

As a Man Grows Older By Italo Svevo Translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete Introduction by James Lasdun A brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese By Cesare Pavese Translated and with an introduction by R.W. Flint Now there can be no excuse for not reading Pavese, one of the few essential novelists of the mid-twentieth century. The new translations and the introduction by R.W. Flint are admirable. —Susan Sontag Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Wine-Dark Sea By Leonardo Sciascia Translated from the Italian by Avril Bardoni Introduction by Albert Mobilio Sciascia examines the contradictions—sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both—of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

To Each His Own By Leonardo Sciascia Translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke Introduction by W.S. Di Piero To Each His Own is one of the masterworks of the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia—a gripping and unconventional detective story that is also an anatomy of a society founded on secrets, lies, collusion, and violence. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte By Lorenzo Da Ponte Translated from the Italian by Elisabeth Abbott Preface by Charles Rosen "I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte Price: $14.96 (25% off)

Contempt By Alberto Moravia Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson Introduction by Tim Parks All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Boredom By Alberto Moravia Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson Introduction by William Weaver Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. Price: $11.21 (25% off)