Jonathan Swift ~6 hr read

Ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked among the tiny people of Lilliput, the first of his voyages to strange and distant lands, in the immortal satire of humankind.

This is a 1749 Italian translation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Sharp, fantastical, immortal. Read it for the greatest of all satirical fantasies, Gulliver among the Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, and beyond, a savage, brilliant send-up of human folly and pride that stands as a foundational classic of imaginative and speculative fiction, here rendered for Italian readers.

In its time

Published in 1726, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).