Audio Anthology of Italian Literature - original italian version. A learning method for all those wishing to enrich their cultural knowledge of Italian and to appreciate more about this ancient land. We offer a pleasant and simple listening experience of the most important chapters of Italian Literature from the great poets of the Middle Ages to contemporary writers, read by narrators, writers and actors. The narrators’ voices enliven and enrich the stories with the resulting improvement to the reader’s imagination and thinking. Learning with text and voice improves language and pronunciation skills. Authors: from Dante Alighieri to Italo Calvino - Type support: 13 CDs or 13 Cassettes - Running time: 700 min. Index of Authors %%product(cdanto).PriceSTR%% %%product(cassetteanto).PriceSTR%% Buy the audiobook on CD! Buy the audiobook on Cassette!

Le Avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino by Carlo Collodi - original and unabridged italian version. Let's rediscover the real story of Pinocchio, which came from the pen of Carlo Lorenzini (alias Collodi) towards the end of the 1800s in Italy and conquered the world. Le avventure di Pinocchio has become one of those books that are timeless and read all over the world. In fact, together with the Bible and the Koran, it is the most widely translated book ever. Il Narratore can offer you a reading of the original text with a voice that becomes many, giving new life to the characters that, amongst others, are by now familiar to everyone of all ages: Geppetto, Jiminy Cricket, Figaro, the fire-eater…. The audiobook of Pinocchio is suitable for everybody - for those who wish to study Italian and want to get to know the Italian people, for parents who wish to read the story to their children, for those who love to fantasise and for those who get a lot of enjoyment out of simply listening to a beautiful story. Author: Carlo Lorenzini alias Collodi - Type support: 4 CDs or 4 Cassettes - Running Time: 280 min. %%product(cdpi).PriceSTR%% %%product(cassettepi).PriceSTR%% Buy the audiobook on CD! Buy the audiobook on Cassette!

Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio by Dino Buzzati - original and unabridged italian version. This novel by Buzzati is a simple yet fantastic story written in 1935; a sort of praising of childhood, it is filled with metamorphoses, sorcery, magical happenings and is a metaphor of the paradoxical relationship that adult humans have with Nature. The protagonist is Colonel Sebastiano Procolo, who inherits part of his uncle's estate in the Valle di Fondo, the so-called "Bosco Vecchio", while the remainder of the estate is left to Sebastiano's twelve-year-old nephew Benvenuto, who lives in a boarding school not far from Fondo. Soon the colonel's selfishness drives in his attempt to claim the entire wood in order to exploit to the full its resources by chopping down the trees. The goblins, secular custodians of the trees, resist his attempts and in the end the colonel, defeated and repentant, succumbs to the secret sacredness of the wood and its inhabitants. Claudio Carini skilfully interprets the various characters in the story (such as the goblins, Matteo the wind and the guardian magpie) and with his smooth narrative style leads us into the recesses of the wood's magical soul. A film based on the book was made by Ermanno Olmi in 1993 and Claudio Carini is the protagonist of a theatrical adaptation for children which is presented all over Italy by the innovative Fontemaggiore theatre in Perugia. Author: Dino Buzzanti - Type support: 4 CDs or 4 Cassettes - Running Time: 272 min. %%product(cdbuz).PriceSTR%% %%product(casettebuz).PriceSTR%% Buy the audiobook on CD! Buy the audiobook on Cassette!

Venezia è un pesce. Una guida by Tiziano Scarpa - original and unabridged italian version. If you want to listen to a truly original book, and perhaps even walk around Venice under the guidance of the voice of Tiziano Scarpa who tells the story through the sensations he gets from his feet, legs, heart, hands, face, ears, mouth, nose, eyes... Author: Tiziano Scarpa - Type support: 2CDs or 2 Cassettes - Running Time: 132 min. %%product(cdsca).PriceSTR%% %%product(cassettesca).PriceSTR%% Buy the audiobook on CD! Buy the audiobook on Cassette!

L' Uccel bel-verde e La Foresta-radice-labirinto by Italo Calvino - original and unabridged italian version. L'Uccel bel-verde is the story of a king, an unfortunate queen, two jealous sisters and an wicked old lady. Two brothers and a sister, all of whom are fair-haired, have to find a particular bird - l'uccel bel-verde. They have to discover its secret in order to break a spell. One of Calvino's most beautiful children's stories. La Foresta-radice-labirinto is one of the last stories for children written by Italo Calvino: it is the story of sinister intrigue, stepmothers, princesses, love, passion and spells which unravels along the paths of the labyrinth-forest ('foresta-labirinto'), where the characters get lost, find their bearings and where, in the end, the question 'where do things start and finish ' may be asked. It is a fable close to Calvino's ideas on ecology but also bound to tradition, and one which children always find enjoyable. Author: Italo Calvino - Type support: CD or Cassette - Running Time: 60 min. %%product(cdcal).PriceSTR%% %%product(casettecal).PriceSTR%% Buy the audiobook on CD! Buy the audiobook on Cassette!