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	Dooney's Cafe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nino Ricci is quite right to suggest that in the 21st century, it is anything but revolutionary to say that Jesus is not divine by virtue of a miraculous birth.
		Ricci, who has acquired the status of an honourary feminist because of his equally open sensibility to the minds and hearts of highly vulnerable uneducated women in his previous novels, told me, "The women's points of view are a natural for me in that they are certainly missing from the traditional accounts.
		Ricci was also influenced by the writings of Flavius Josephus, the recreant who was born in Jerusalem less than a decade after Jesus's death and later became the official Jewish historian for the Romans throughout the final decades of the first century.
	www.dooneyscafe.com /print.php?sid=145 (2569 words)

	Nino Ricci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
		Ricci has travelled in Europe and Africa, where, in Nigeria, he taught English literature and language in a high school for two years.
		Ricci served as one of the directors of PEN Canada from 1990-96, and as President during 1995-96.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nino_Ricci (207 words)

	Amazon.ca: Testament: Books: Nino Ricci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Judas becomes Yihuda of Qiryat, a dour and paranoid agent for the Jewish resistance, and Christ himself is drawn as the bastard son of a Roman dignitary, begotten in a rape that was brokered by Mary's upwardly mobile father.
		Nino' Ricci's attempt at a new scripture is not in their league by a long shot, but neither is the book an abject failure.
		Ricci's decision to compose his novel as four new gospels inevitably forces the back-text, the New Testament, to become the foreground, and to be placed besides its pale imitator for comparison.
	www.amazon.ca /Testament-Nino-Ricci/dp/0385658540 (2017 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Testament by Nino Ricci
		Nino Ricci says: “From the outset I assumed that Jesus was somebody who, in whatever way, was greater than I was, someone I wasn’t going to get to the bottom of.” So he used the technique of circling around the subject, giving different facets, trying to show by suggestion something that cannot be simply explained.
		Ricci did not expect true believers to be his readers, given the premise that Jesus was not divine.
		Nino Ricci was born fourth of six children in an Italian farming family in Leamington, Ontario.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385658553 (1718 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books
		Nino Ricci's third novel, the final installment of his Vittorio Innocente Trilogy, begins with a pleasant aimlessness.
		Ricci is very skilled at bringing minor characters to life with a few deft strokes, and slowly, patiently, he assembles the world of these half-estranged siblings.
		Ricci's knowledge of the darker precincts of human emotion are obvious here, as is the fact that ``Where She Has Gone'' and its sister novels form, at their essence, a brilliant study of the way shame is passed down through generations.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/nino_ricci.htm (974 words)

	An Interview With Nino Ricci
		Nino Ricci is a busy full-time author -- an achievement that is as precious to many writers as awards and recognition, both of which Ricci has also gained.
		Ricci continued the story of Vittorio's life through a span of twenty years in the subsequent novels In A Glass House (McClelland & Stewart, 1993) and Where She Has Gone (M&S 1997).
		Ricci: No. At the time I thought I was working on a single novel, but one that encompassed the whole story that now comprises the trilogy.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/30045 (453 words)

	Reader's Guide for Testament published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		In the stunning, critically acclaimed novel Testament, Nino Ricci accomplishes something of an entirely new order: a portrait of Jesus that is historically grounded, philosophically rich, and emotionally moving and that speaks eloquently to the place and power of stories in our lives.
		Nino Ricci is the author of several internationally renowned works of fiction.
		Nino Ricci is often praised for his ability to "recreate a world entire and make us believe in it" (the Globe and Mail on Lives of the Saints).
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/ricci_testament.shtml (1952 words)

	THE LANCE ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ricci, the Italian-Canadian writer, and now the University of Windsor’s Writer In Residence, has tasted rejection, but in looking back knows he did the right thing and that was to persevere and continue with his craft.
		Ricci recounts the individual whom had the most influence in his life, a professor that advised his writing during his Masters, whom with he describes the strength of the exclusive bond between teacher and student.
		Ricci’s reaction to this is positive, and he believes that his influence “To young adults, at that formative period in life, is hopefully doing something at least to encourage appreciation in literature in them.”
	www.thelanceonline.ca /arts/news_12_09_05_fiction.html (848 words)

	Amazon.com: Testament: A Novel: Books: Nino Ricci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ricci is Canadian, but his renown is international, based on his best-selling trilogy of autobiographical novels, The Book of Saints (1991), In a Glass House (1995), and Where She Has Gone (1998).
		Ricci accomplishes both splendidly, from seeing Judas' role as a participant in a liberation movement against Rome (which is the basis of his view of Jesus) to Mary's rape by a Roman soldier, which resulted in the birth of the boy she called Jesus.
		Nino Ricci is a skilled writer, and his description of scenery and of some of the characters is excellent.
	www.amazon.com /Testament-Novel-Nino-Ricci/dp/0618446672 (2262 words)

	Amazon.ca: In a Glass House: Books: Nino Ricci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ON FINISHING Lives of the Saints back in 1990, readers of Nino Ricci's stellar first novel were left - after the chorus of bravos died down - with whetted appetites for the sequel.
		Unfortunately, Ricci has chosen to filter his story through a profoundly unsympathetic narrator who is incapable of intimacy or true understanding of the people around him, and yet ruminates whole chapters away indeed the entire book - on the complexities of human relationships.
		In places, Ricci tells his tale beautifully, but he seems to have fallen under the spell of his own prose, which, like the protagonist, turns in upon itself a little too deeply.
	www.amazon.ca /Glass-House-Nino-Ricci/dp/0771074530 (1475 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Testament by Nino Ricci, reviewed by Christian Science Monitor
		Nino Ricci is fortunate that Christian leaders aren't currently issuing fatwas, although as Salman Rushdie knows, there's nothing like a blasphemy charge to boost sales.
		Not surprisingly, Ricci acknowledges his debt to the Jesus Seminar and insists that he "has made every effort to work within the bounds of historical plausibility." This is an entirely reasonable approach, except that history tends to turn on moments of striking implausibility.
		The four narrators Ricci creates are exceptionally well drawn and brilliantly infused with the details of their time, but the figure they revolve around remains something of a fl hole, observable mostly by his influence on them.
	www.powells.com /review/2003_06_30.html (1187 words)

	Novel Ideas — Concordia University Magazine Features
		When Nino Ricci, MA 87, came to Montreal, he had an honours degree in English from York University and was planning to begin graduate studies in comparative literature at McGill.
		Ricci recalls that all his classes were in the old Norris Building on Drummond Street, “an awful place, like entering something from Kafka, with windowless rooms, airless offices, the library with claustrophobic towers of books.
		“Nino Ricci and I were in the same class and became close friends and there’s a little bit of Nino in Lorenzo Gaddo,” she admits.
	magazine.concordia.ca /2004/december/features/Novelists.shtml (2769 words)

	Press Release for Testament published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		In Testament, Nino Ricci turns the gifts that have won him acclaim as a novelist to reimagining the life of the man Christians know as the Son of God, exploring the ways in which his story might have been shaped by the time and place in which he lived.
		Nino Ricci's best-selling trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels Lives of the Saints (soon to be a motion picture starring Sophia Loren), In a Glass House, and Where She Has Gone — won him widespread international attention and a multitude of awards in his native Canada.
		Nino Ricci's debut novel, Lives of the Saints (published in the United States as The Book of Saints), was an international bestseller and won the Governor General's Award for fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F. Bressani Prize.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/ricci (1094 words)

	Testament
		Set in a remote corner of the Roman Empire at a moment of political unrest and spiritual uncertainty, Testament is the timeless story of how a holy man of enormous charisma and passionate belief alters forever the course of human history.
		It is Nino Ricci's most ambitious book to date, one that is certain to be delighted in, talked about, and even argued over.
		“[Ricci's] latest book is a stunning historical novel that will only enhance his high reputation.
	www.ninoricci.com /testament.htm (804 words)

	Books in Canada - Review
		Now, with the appearance of this last novel, something like an appraisal can be made, not only of the story Ricci has to tell of Vittorio Innocente and his family, but also-and perhaps more importantly-of Ricci's development as a writer.
		Ricci is meticulous in his use of language in the novel; the images and impressions told from Vittorio Innocente's youthful perspective are so vivid, so precise, that Lives of the Saints becomes almost a miniature Madame Bovary in its le mot juste exactitude.
		Describing the bus ride to and from school, Ricci so acutely evokes the class misfit, George, and Vittorio's adolescent feelings toward him, that one becomes convinced afterward that George went to one's own school and that this, embarrassing but true, was exactly how one felt.
	www.booksincanada.com /article_view.asp?id=93 (1320 words)

	NYTimes
		NINO RICCI was born in 1959 in Leamington, Ontario, and holds dual Canadian and Italian citizenship.
		Ricci's projected trilogy, shifting Vittorio and his infant half sister from the familiar world of the Apennine Mountains to his father's greenhouses and 30-acre farm on the shores of Lake Erie.
		Vittorio first goes to school as a skinny, pining, ill-dressed immigrant, humiliated by being put back two years, to the first grade, because of his lack of English, and perpetually fearful of being seen by others as stupid and strange.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/10/11/nnp/ricci-glass.html (518 words)

	An Interview With Nino Ricci -- Part Two
		Nino Ricci has captivated Canada's literary world with novels that are full of culture (particularly drawing from his Italian background), and life -- especially tragedy and sadness.
		When I spoke with him, we discussed the role of his ethnicity on his writing, his influences, and his goals as a writer.
		This is part two of my interview with Nino Ricci, conducted in 1998.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/31651 (384 words)

	Books We Are Reading
		As the novel progresses we begin to see his story, filtered by different eyes.
		Ricci accomplishes something of an entirely neworder: a portrait that is historically grounded, philosophically rich, and emotionally moving and that speaks eloquently to the place and power of stories in our lives.
		Nino Ricci was born in 1959 in Ontario.
	www.thewords.com /articles/books-nino.htm (330 words)

	McClelland.com \| Books \| In a Glass House by Nino Ricci
		Ricci juxtaposes the intimate, complex world of family, with “its shadowy intricate web of alliances,” against the dislocations of the immigrant experience.
		The novel was also a long-time national bestseller, and was followed by the highly acclaimed In a Glass House (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997), which was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize.
		Ricci holds a B.A. from York University and an M.A. from Concordia University.
	www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771075056 (312 words)

	Anne McDermid & Associates-Literary Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nino Ricci's first novel, Lives of the Saints (1990) was an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, spending a stunning 75 weeks on The Globe and Mail's bestseller list, winning the Governor General's Award, the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the Winnifred Holtby Prize, and was published in over twenty-five countries.
		The Times London called it "beautifully written and tireless in its pursuit of emotional truth." The third book of the trilogy, Where She Has Gone (1997), was called "a delicate and soulful novel" by Time Magazine.
		Nino Ricci has won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, F.G. Bressani Prize, the Betty Trask Award for Fiction (UK), The Winnifred Holtby Prize (UK), the 1992 Prise Contrepoint Madrineaux (France), the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was a finalist for The Giller Prize.
	www.mcdermidagency.com /ricci2.htm (399 words)

	Ricci Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		by Isolina Ricci, Ph.D. The groundbreaking classic, now revised, updated and expanded, covers the legal, financial and emotional realities of creating two happy and stable homes for children in the often difficult and confusing aftermath of a divorce.
		Ricci Martin takes readers on a tour through his childhood, from the star-studded parties to the exploration of three marriages, eight kids, and one family, to the treasured one-on-one time he shared with his father.
		This fourth novel by Canadian writer Nino Ricci focuses not--as do most of his books--on Italian immigrants in Canada but on the historical Jesus (Yeshua).
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ricci (704 words)

	AUTHOR NINO RICCI TO KICK OFF YORK UNIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES SHOWCASING THE ITALIAN-CANADIAN IMAGINATION, THROUGH ...
		Ricci (BA English, 1981) will begin his presentation on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 4 pm with a reading from his most recent novel, Where She Has Gone.
		Ricci's first novel, Lives of the Saints, won national and international acclaim, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
		The second volume of his trilogy, In a Glass House, cemented Ricci's reputation as one of Canada's brightest literary stars.
	www.yorku.ca /mediar/releases_1996_2000/archive/012998.htm (612 words)

	Sebastiano Ricci (1659 - 1734) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Sebastiano Ricci - Battle of the Romans and the Sabines c.
		Sebastiano Ricci - A Glory of the Virgin with the Archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebius, Roch, and Sebastian c.
		Marco Ricci, Landscape with a Peasant and a Horse, 1730
	wwar.com /masters/r/ricci-sebastiano.html (1188 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		Canadian novelist Nino Ricci's latest book, Testament," is a retelling of the gospel stories through the eyes of three familiar biblical figures-Judas, Mary Magdalene, and his mother, Mary-and a fictional Syrian shepherd who narrates Jesus' lonely and desperate end in Jerusalem.
		In Ricci's conception, which owes much to recent historical and textual scholars, Jesus is entirely human.
		But given the history we know is to come, the book reads almost like a mystery, as Ricci weaves a trail from a mystic Jewish teacher to the traditions of a worldwide religion.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/125/story_12504_1.html (490 words)

	Cormorant Books: Nino Ricci
		In addition to the Vittorio Innocente Trilogy, which includes the novels Lives of the Saints, In A Glass House and Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci is also the author of Testament which was published in Spring 2002 and which won the Trillium Prize.
		Nino Ricci lives in Toronto with his wife and son.
		"With Lives of the Saints, Nino Ricci has achieved a novel of remarkable beauty and unforgettable power...Ricci belongs on the shelf reserved for writers such as Chatwin, Ondaatje and Flannery O'Connor.
	www.cormorantbooks.com /authors/riccinino.htm (134 words)

	CBC Radio \| Writers & Company \| Spring 2002 Schedule
		"Nino Ricci in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival in Moncton."
		Canadian novelist Nino Ricci in an onstage conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, recorded at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival in Moncton.
		In his new book, Testament, Nino Ricci re-imagines "the greatest story every told", the life of Jesus.
	www.cbc.ca /writersandcompany/2002spring.html (896 words)

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