Reviewing Mario Pratesi: The Critical Press and Its Influence

“Anne Urbancic’s meticulous and thorough archival research opens a fascinating window onto readers’ expectations at the end of the nineteenth century in Italy. Written in lively prose, Reviewing Mario Pratesi is a valuable source for scholars not only of Pratesi, but of verismo and indeed of post-unification Italian literature and culture generally.” Maria Truglio, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State University

“Reviewing Mario Pratesi represents an extremely well researched and original attempt to draw critical attention to Pratesi, a prolific but often neglected Tuscan author. Capitalizing on her extensive archival work, Anne Urbancic’s succinct history of book reviewing as a genre sheds new light on the cultural history of Italy in the post-unification era.” Margherita Heyer-Caput, Department of French and Italian, University of California, Davis