Italian books by setting

Where 956 books and other written works are set. Titles are ranked by Italian Wikipedia lookups, not readers or sales.

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RegionTitlesTop 200Most looked-up proseMost looked-up poem or play

Lazio15416.5%La Storia 1974Vestire gli ignudi 1922

Lombardia14811.5% ↓I promessi sposi 1827Gl'innamorati 1759

Sicilia14323.0% ↑Il Gattopardo 1958La giara

Campania10212.0% ↑L'amica geniale 2011Filumena Marturano 1946

Toscana1029.0% ↓Decameron 1350sLa locandiera 1753

Emilia-Romagna805.5% ↓Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis 1802La donna di garbo 1743

Piemonte7210.0% ↑Cuore 1886none among those we could tell

Veneto585.5%Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis 1802Il servitore di due padroni

Sardegna483.5% ↓Accabadora 2009none among those we could tell

Friuli-Venezia Giulia323.0%La coscienza di Zeno 1923none among those we could tell

Puglia224.5% ↑Testimone inconsapevole 2002none among those we could tell

Liguria192.5%Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno 1947none among those we could tell

Abruzzo133.5% ↑L'Arminuta 2017La figlia di Iorio 1904

Calabria121.0%I leoni di Sicilia 2019none among those we could tell

Basilicata80.5%Cristo si è fermato a Eboli 1945none set here

Trentino-Alto Adige60.5%Resto qui 2018none set here

Marche30.0%Io venìa pien d'angoscia a rimirarti 1990none set here

Valle d'Aosta30.5%Pista nera 2013Una partita a scacchi 1871

Molise20.0%Le terre del Sacramento 1950none set here

Umbrianothing set here

Share of allShare of the 200 most looked-up, greyed where a region has under ten titles

How this list is made

Placed by where the story is set, not where the book was written. A book set in two regions counts in both.

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