"The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan, sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, t...

Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave new world. His revelation leads to a devastating conclusion. "O Primo Bazilio has a far deeper tragedy than Madame Bovary", wrote Roy Campbell, "because the girl involved is not a bi...

In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's...

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.