Beautiful Antonio

by Vitaliano Brancati · first published 1949

Beautiful Antonio (Italian: Il bell'Antonio) is a 1949 novel by the Italian writer Vitaliano Brancati. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, it is about a Sicilian man who easily attracts women with his beauty but fails in his attempted career in Rome and struggles with impotence as he returns to Sicily for marriage. The book deals with themes related to Southern Italian sexual gallismo and Fascist Italy. The book was first published in English as Antonio, the Great Lover in a 1952 translation by Vladimir Kean where some of the sexual content was omitted.

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Original language:

Italian

Year page:

1949