Start with high-confidence italian literary collections books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories
Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
Easy Italian Phrase Book
Dover, Dover Publications
Numero Zero
Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon
The Spell of Italy
Richard Block
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Italo Calvino
Franco Ricci, Andrea Dini
