Selected Works
- Il cielo รจ rosso, a novel written in a prisony camp during WWII and published in 1948 (translated as The Sky Is Red by Angus Davidson)
- Il male oscuro (literally, "The dark illness") a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which won him in 1964 both Viareggio Prize and Campiello Prize
- La Passione secondo noi stessi (literally, "Passion according ourselves"), a 1972 play
- La gloria (lit., "The glory"), a novel about Judas's mission of betraying Jesus
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