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Giallo Mondadori
''Il Giallo Mondadori'' is an Italian series of mystery/crime novels published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 1929. Their original title was ''I libri gialli'', where wiktionary:giallo, ''giallo'' in Italian means "yellow", a reference to the color of the cover background. The title was changed to ''I gialli Mondadori'' in 1946. The series had a weekly periodicity for decades, while currently is published every fifteen days. In its long life, the series spawned several companion series, the most successful being ''I classici del Giallo'', which is still ongoing and publishes reprints. The series usually features translations of American novels, although Italian and European authors have become more frequent starting from the 1990s; authors published include Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Edgar Wallace, Erle Stanley Gardner (the first issue was ''The Case of Silent Partner''), John Dickson Carr, Ed McBain, Dan Simmons, Seicho Matsumoto, Cornell Woolrich, Donald E. Westlake, Bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Austin Freeman - L'affare D'Arblay (The D'Arblay Mystery) - I Gialli Mondadori 1931
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick (nickname), Dick", "Dickon", "Dickie (name), Dickie", "Rich (given name), Rich", "Rick (given name), Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", "Ricky (given name), Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loriano Macchiavelli
Loriano Macchiavelli (born March 12, 1934) is an Italian mystery writer and playwright. Macchiavelli was born in Vergato, near Bologna. He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright. As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio (surname written first), a Bolognese police detective, characterized by a strong morality but mediocre investigative capabilities; in his tales he is often helped by the sharper mind of Rosas, a smart university student. Sarti's stories have been turned into a television series in 1991, followed by an Italian-German co-production of six films, broadcast in April and May 1994. He was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine ''Orient Express''. More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini having a Carabinieri ''maresciallo'', Benedetto Santovito, as the protagonist. Machiavelli's books have been published in France, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Magazines Published In Italy
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Italian Literature
Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italian people, Italians or in Languages of Italy, other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to Italian language#History, modern Italian, including Regional Italian, regional varieties and vernacular dialects. Italian literature begins in the 12th century, when in different regions of the Italian Peninsula, peninsula the Italian vernacular started to be used in a literary manner. The ''Salv'a lo vescovo senato, Ritmo laurenziano'' is the first extant document of Italian literature. An early example of Italian literature is the tradition of vernacular lyric poetry performed in Occitan language, Occitan, which reached Italy by the end of the 12th century. In 1230, the Sicilian School became notable for being the first style in standard Italian. Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest of Italian poets, is notable for being the aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian-language Magazines
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Italian Crime Novels
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Sandrone Dazieri
Sandrone Dazieri (born 4 November 1964) is a popular Italian crime writer. His most famous work is the Gorilla series, an episode of which was also dramatized as a television film. Biography He was born in Cremona in 1964. He graduated at San Pellegrino Terme hotel-management school and worked as a cook for ten years, all around Italy. After having moved to Milan he started working in a number of jobs, from seller to porter, and played a very active role in the movement of Milan social centers. In 1992 he got closer to publishing working as a proofreader for Telepress editorial service, and after five years he was appointed general manager of Milan branch. He also worked as a freelance journalist and collaborated with Manifesto as an expert of counterculture and genre fiction. In 1999 he achieved his first popular success with the thriller ''Attenti al gorilla (Watch Out For The Gorilla)'', the first in a best-seller series, where the main character is a sort of doppelgänger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Jacono
Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: *Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo *Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Charles. *A former member of Dion and the Belmonts best known for his 1964 song, Ring A Ling. *Carlo (submachine gun), an improvised West Bank gun. * Carlo, a fictional character from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp * It can be confused with Carlos * Carlo means “man” (from Germanic “karal”), “free man” (from Middle Low German “kerle”) and “warrior”, “army” (from Germanic “hari”). See also *Carl (name) *Carle (other) *Carlos (given name) Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name ''Charles'', from the Germanic ''Carl''. Notable people with the name include: Royalty *Carlos I of Portugal (1863–1908), second to last King of P ... {{disambig Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Caesar
Kurt Caesar (also known as Cesare Avai or Caesar Away, true name Kurt Kaiser; 30 March 1906 – 12 July 1974) was a German-Italian painter, journalist and comic book artist. He was born at Montigny-lès-Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, to German father. He studied Engineering in Leipzig, but later he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin; in the meantime he had a boxing career which led him to win a German title. In 1929 he became correspondent for a magazine in Zürich and collaborated for several German magazines; his journalist career led him to travel in Europe and Asia. After his marriage he moved to Italy, where he started to work at successful comics, such as Romano il Legionario, a popular nationalist character published in ''Il Vittorioso''. He also drew "Aeroporto Z" and "Will Sparrow" for ''Paperino e altre avventure''. During World War II Caesar was in Morocco, Libya and Spain, and, in 1941, again in Africa as interpreter for Erwin Rommel. Captured by the English, he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alda Teodorani
Alda Teodorani (born 1968) is an Italian writer. She has been defined as the "queen of Italian dark". The director Dario Argento has said "Alda Teodorani's stories are like my deepest nightmares." She made her debut in 1990 with the publication of ''Non hai capito'' in the ''Nero Italiano 27 racconti metropolitani'' anthology. Biography Teodorani was born in Lugo. In 1991 she founded "Gruppo 13" a group of authors of thrillers and noir stories with Loriano Macchiavelli and Carlo Lucarelli. In the same year, she moved to Rome where with Fabio Giovannini and Antonio Tentori she founded the Neor-noir movement which theorises a narrative from the individual standpoint of the assassin. In 1997 one of her stories was included in the '' Gioventù Cannibale'' collection (Einaudi) published in Italian, French and Spanish. It became a literary sensation and the start of the Italian "Cannibal-pulp" movement. In 2002 Teodorani published a book in France unreleased in Italy, ''Belve-Cruatés ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan D
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fictitious author Ellery Queen, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective named Ellery Queen. From 1993, EQMM changed its cover title to be ''Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine'' (without the 's), but the table of contents still retains the full name. Background Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of the team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who had been writing under the name since 1929. ''EQMM'' was created to provide a market for mystery fiction above the common run of pulp crime magazines of the day. Dannay served as the magazine's editor-in-chief (although still under the name Ellery Queen) from its creation until his death in 1982, when managing editor Eleanor Sullivan succeeded to the post. Following her death in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
