Bella Italia

Inspired by nothing more than a recent, delightful holiday in Italy, this quiz is on all literary Italian things.

For Reading Addicts
Created by For Reading Addicts (User Generated Content*)User Generated Content is not posted by anyone affiliated with, or on behalf of, Playbuzz.com.
On Jun 16, 2017
1 / 20

In which 1908 novel do Lucy and her cousin, Charlotte, travel to Florence where Lucy discovers love and her better self?

2 / 20

Finish the title of this Sarah Dunant novel set in Florence at the time of the Medicis; The Birth of ---

3 / 20

Who is the Merchant of Venice?

4 / 20

Elena Ferrante’s bestselling series of Neopolitan novels began with My Brilliant Friend, what is the 4th and final novel called?

5 / 20

Which novel, set in 1327, is a murder mystery which takes place in an Italian abbey?

6 / 20

In which Elizabeth von Armin novel does the charm, peace and romance of an Italian castle transform the lives of four disparate London ladies?

7 / 20

Two Italian cities are in the titles of two Shakespeare plays; Venice is one, what is the other?

8 / 20

Which Hemingway novel is the story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse?

9 / 20

In which novella does Gustav von Aschenbach travel to Venice in order to get over his writer’s block?

10 / 20

Which 14thC collection of novellas by Boccaccio contains 100 tales told by a group sheltering from the Black Death and is thought to have greatly influenced Chaucer?

11 / 20

Which Shakespeare play begins ‘Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…’

12 / 20

Finish the title of this popular novel about novels by Italo Calvino: If on a --- Night a Traveller

13 / 20

The writer Durante degli Alighieri is better known as what?

14 / 20

In the 1938 play the Life of Galileo by Brecht Galileo is tried and sentenced by the Church for what?

15 / 20

In which Italian town was writer Primo Michele Levi born in 1919?

16 / 20

Which play features Katherina Minola being wooed by Petruchio before the bemused citizens of Padua?

17 / 20

In the Godfather young Vito Andolini changes his name to hide from his enemies, what does he take his new name from?

18 / 20

How many of Shakespeare’s plays are set partially, if not exclusively, in Italy?

19 / 20

Who wrote the classic novel The Leopard about the Prince of Salina who must choose between the forces of change and tradition in 1860s Sicily?

20 / 20

Finish the title of this Anne Fine story for young children: How to Cross the Road and Not Turn into a ---

20
Questions left
These are 10 of the World CRAZIEST Ice Cream Flavors
Created by Tal Garner
On Nov 18, 2021