Start with high-confidence italian literary collections books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Luigi Pirandello
Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories
Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
Italian Renaissance Tales
Anthony Mortimer, Giovanni Boccaccio
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
Inventing the Enemy
Umberto Eco
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
Five Comedies From the Italian Renaissance
Laura Giannetti, Guido Ruggiero
Stories From the City of God
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Walter Siti
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
