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Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway’s Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy. The collection addresses Hemingway’s many Italys—the terrain and people he encountered during his life and the country he transposed into his fiction. Contributors analyze Hemingway’s Italian works, including A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees,lesser-known short stories, fables, and even a previously unpublished Hemingway sketch, “Torcello Piece.” The essays provide fresh insights on Hemingway’s Italian life, career, and imagination.  Contributors: Giacomo Ivancich Ruggero Caumo Scott Donaldson Sergio Perosa Rosella Mamoli Zorzi Davide Lorigliola Alberto Lena Miriam B. Mandel Michael Kim Roos John D. Schwetman Adam Long Marina Gradoli Piero Ambrogio Pozzi Kirk Curnutt Cam Cobb Kei Katsui

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“An indispensable source for anyone seeking wider knowledge of twenty-first-century Hemingway research, particularly with respect to his works set in Italy.”—Modern Language Review “An accessible introduction to Hemingway and Italy. . . . The collection is a pleasure.”—Hemingway Review

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Mark Cirino, associate professor and Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair of English at the University of Evansville, is the author or editor of several books, including Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action. Mark P. Ott, instructor of English at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, is the author or editor of several books, including A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream-A Contextual Biography.

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