This volume brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from the deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing. Poetry and prose, the essay, the political and economic tract, and the new visual arts are all represented in this collection.Corrado Alvaro, Studio Azzurro, Mariella Bettarini, Virginio Bettini, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Italo Calvino, Dino Campana, Carlo Cassola, Antonio Cederna, Gianni Celati, Laura Conti, Gabriele D"Annunzio, Giuseppe Dessì, Danilo Dolci, Corrado Govoni, Tonino Guerra, Jolanda Insana, Carlo Levi, Nicola Licciardello, Loredana Lucarini, Gianna Manzini, Gianni Mattioli, Daria Menicanti, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Moretti, Giorgio Nebbia, Luciana Notari, Anna Maria Ortese, Giovanni Pascoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fulco Pratesi, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nuto Revelli, Monica Sarsini, Massimo Scalia, Carlo Sgorlon, Ignazio Silone, Mario Rigoni Stern, Alfredo Todisco, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Andrea Zanzotto.