Matilde Serao is still today all too often remembered as a minor writer in a large cohort of nineteenth-century regional Italian writers. Contributors to this volume present compelling evidence that Matilde Serao was anything but a minor figure, and that she enjoyed international renown and was translated into all major languages of Europe. The present collection of essays reveals new and unexpected details about the relationship between Serao and her European and American readership, as well as about the interconnections between late nineteenth-century Italian literature and the various literary traditions of Europe and beyond.