In addition to having translated Mercè Rodoreda, Eva Baltasar and Joan Sales to Italian, of tirelessly telling Catalan history and culture from the university and of having participated in numerous events of promotion and dissemination of our contemporary classics - as has recently happened with Montserrat Roig–, Amaranta Sbardella (Rome, 1984) has found time to investigate Barcelona from two perspectives: first she did so with the stories of Naked Barcelona (Comanegra, 2019; translation by Marina Laboreo Roig) and now with the essay Solar, nocturnal and sonorous, translated into Catalan by Xavier Valls Guinovart. The book opens the collection Literary Barcelona by Barcelona City Council, curated by Joan Ferrarons Llagostera, and explores the links between Italian culture and the Catalan capital through literature, the performing arts, film, and publishing.