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Dante Alighieri Society Book Club Friday, July 17, 2015 7 Agostino By Alberto Moravia Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful, widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, she begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. […]

 I Will Have Vengeance—Il senso del dolore By Maurizio de Giovanni Set in Naples in 1931, the novel takes place during the early rule of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, at a time in which the gap between the wealthy and poor is enormous. Angelo Garzo, the Vice Questore in charge of Ricciardi’s department, “whose life […]