Tag: Historical Fiction

• Antonio’s Road Film Review Napoli nel Cinema

  English Translation Napoli nel Cinema Film Review “Antonio’s Road”: a melodrama on emigration told with delicacy and sensitivity Paco De Renzis July 15, 2026 Presented in Italian premiere at the sixteenth edition of the Social World Film Festival in Vico Equense, in the independent OFF Festivalsection, Antonio’s Road by director Donna Di Giuseppe addresses one of the most universal themes…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  August 11, 2026

  Uncategorized

  1929, 1950s, andrew-rogers, female-director, film, film-review, Historical Fiction, immigration, independent-film, ireland, irish-immigration, italian-immigration, italy, movies, narrative, period-drama, review, toni-maddocks

• A PRINCESS OF PEACE  for 2021 So much pain, in so many ways, 2020. Yet, also, transformation, change, growth. Quarantine offered time and simplicity. I used my time and angst in 2020 to polish the screenplay adaptation of LADY IN ERMINE. Six rewrites. It was rough in June. Wordy in July. Rambling in August. In…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  December 31, 2020

  Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, Bridgerton, Historical Fiction, period piece, The Queen's Gambit, women's history

• Sofonisba Anguissola and International Travel

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  April 27, 2020

  Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, Historical Fiction, Italian travel, italy, Spanish Habsburgs

• Historical Fiction for Now

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  April 27, 2020

  Italy, Travel, and Culture

  Historical Fiction, italian history, microhistory

• Escape Virus Worries With Historical Fiction: Beneath A Scarlet Sky

  For Historical Fiction that will make your heart sing, I want to recommend Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan. A best seller in 2017 (when I was preoccupied finishing up Lady in Ermine), Beneath A Scarlet Sky is engaging reading for the current moment, substantively and literally. Without any spoilers, Scarlet Sky is set in German occupied Lombardy (Sofonisba’s region)…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  April 16, 2020

  Italy, Travel, and Culture, Uncategorized

  #Sofonisba, Beneath A Scarlet Sky, Historical Fiction, Lombardy, Mark Sullivan, WWII