“La lunga attesa dell’angelo” (the long wait of the angel) is Melania G. Mazzucco’s latest novel; it tells about the last part of Jacopo Robusti’s life, also known as great Venetian painter Tintoretto. Exitus: two frames define this crucial moment, first the fever begins and then it leads fast to (...)

The underlying theme of the second novel of the Venetian writer Alda Monico is the lagoon. The lagoon is a kind of amniotic womb of Venice: its waters with the islands and the sandbanks, just like sand dikes consolidated by the work of man, defend Venice and are considered to be the city (...)