The novel The Garden of Finzi Contini, published in 1962, became the pinnacle of the work of the Italian writer, poet and literary historian Giorgio Bassani (1924–2000). It brought the author European fame and was awarded the prestigious Italian Viareggio Prize. In 1971, the famous Italian director Vittorio De Sica made a film based on The Garden of Finzi-Contini, which received an Academy Award. The Garden of Finzi-Contini is a novel about unrequited youthful love, doubly tragic because the main character of the novel is Jewish and he loves a Jewish woman. , but they live in fascist Italy and there is a gloomy unknown ahead of them...