📚 Italian

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The dialect question solved by literature: Petrarch’s prestige, the Manzoni settlement, the phrasebooks.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject italian language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
La locandiera	Carlo Goldoni	1776	31
Basic Italian	Speroni, Charles	1958	27
Il visconte dimezzato	Italo Calvino	1952	26
Ciao!	Carla Federici	1986	25
Storia della lingua italiana	Bruno Migliorini	1948	18
Da capo	Graziana Lazzarino	1979	17
New English and Italian pronouncing and explanatory dictionary	John Millhouse	1855	16
Prego!	Graziana Lazzarino	1980	16
Modern Italian grammar	Anna Proudfoot	1996	14
The Italian language today	Anna Laura Lepschy	1977	13
La ragazza di Bube	Carlo Cassola	1960	10
Oggi in Italia	Franca Merlonghi	1987	10
Italian for dummies	Francesca Romana Onofri	2000	10
Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana	Ottorino Pianigiani	1907	9
Storia della lingua italiana	Bruno Migliorini	1960	9
Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita	Tullio De Mauro	1963	9
Avanti!	Janice M. Aski	2005	9
Italian for Beginners	Angela Wilkes	1987	8
La luna e i falò	Pavese, Cesare.	1954	7
Living Italian	Maria Valgimigli	1960	7
Italian made simple	Eugene Jackson	1960	7
Complete Italian	Clelia Boscolo	2010	7
Italian grammar	C. H. Grandgent	1889	6
Parlo italiano	Luisa Rapaccini	1969	6
Singers' Italian	Evelina Colorni	1970	6
Il contesto	Leonardo Sciascia	1971	6
Eccoci!	Paola Blelloch	1997	6
Parliamo italiano!	Suzanne Branciforte	1998	6
A short cut to the Italian language	Waldo A. Rigal	1960	5
I can read Italian	Penrose Colyer	1980	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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