Piazza d'Italia (novel)

Piazza d'Italia is the 1975 debut novel of the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is a short picaresque novel that spans from the Italian unification to the fascist era and follows Volturno Banarchist, a rebel and occasional clairvoyant. It was first published by Bompiani.^[1][2][3]

Piazza d'Italia

Author	Antonio Tabucchi
Language	Italian
Genre	picaresque novel
Publisher	Bompiani
Publication date	1975
Publication place	Italy
Pages	134

The scholar Rocco Capozzi describes Banarchist as the model for the type of socially conscious protagonist that would recur throughout Tabucchi's literary career.^[4]