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Il passero solitario

"Il passero solitario" is a lyric poem by Giacomo Leopardi, Canto XI of his Canti, comparing the poet's solitary youth to a bird singing alone from an ancient tower until nightfall.

Il pastor fido

Il pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd) is a five-act pastoral tragicomedy by the Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini, published in 1590 and modeled on mythical Arcadia.

Ilahi-Nama

The Ilahi-Nama (الهی‌نامه, "Book of God") is a Persian mystical poem by Farid al-Din Attar, in which a king answers his six sons' worldly wishes with Sufi teachings.

Iliad (λιάς)

The Iliad (Ιλιάδα), Homer's ancient Greek epic of Achilles' wrath in the Trojan War, 24 books dated around 750 BC, orally composed, with over 1,000 surviving manuscripts and a rich translation history.

Ilias Latina

The Ilias Latina is a 1,070-line Latin hexameter poem, generally attributed to Baebius Italicus and dated around 54–65 CE, that condenses Homer's Iliad into a brief epitome.

Ilinden

Ilinden (Илинден) is a 1953 historical novel by Bulgarian writer Dimitar Talev, the third in his tetralogy about the Glaushev family, centered on the 1903 Ilinden uprising.

Illuminati (comics)

Illuminati (Marvel Comics): secret council of Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, Professor X, Namor, and Reed Richards, created by Brian Michael Bendis in New Avengers #7 (2005), central to Hickman's incursions saga and the MCU's Earth-838 team.

Illuminations (poetry collection)

Illuminations is Rimbaud's collection of prose poems, written c. 1872–1875, first published in La Vogue in 1886 with a preface by Verlaine, never published by Rimbaud himself.

Ilseongnok

Ilseongnok (일성록) is the daily court diary of late Joseon Korea, recording royal activities and state administration from 1760 to 1910, begun by King Jeongjo.

Ilustrado

Ilustrado is the debut novel of Filipino writer Miguel Syjuco, first published in 2010, following a young writer investigating the death of his mentor, Crispin Salvador, in New York.

Ilya Rozanov

Ilya Grigoryevich Rozanov (Илья Григорьевич Розанов), fictional Russian bisexual hockey star of Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels and Heated Rivalry (2025, Crave/HBO Max), played by Connor Storrie, longtime secret partner of Shane Hollander.

Image Universe

Image Universe: the mainstream shared continuity of Image Comics, founded 1992 by seven ex-Marvel artists. Early crossovers (Deathmate, Image United) gave way to Shattered Image and separate title universes, now joined by Spawn Universe, Energon Universe, and Massive-Verse.

Imaginary Homelands

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991 is a 1991 essay collection by Salman Rushdie, whose title essay argues that expatriate writers reconstruct their birth countries from memory.

Imaginary voyage

An imaginary voyage is a prose fiction presenting a fictional journey in the form of a genuine travel account, popular in Britain and France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Imaizumi Brings All the Gals to His House (今泉ん家はどうやらギャルの溜まり場になってるらしい)

Imaizumi Brings All the Gals to His House (今泉ん家はどうやらギャルの溜まり場になってるらしい~DEEP~) is Gorou Nori's all-ages gyaru harem romcom manga on Web Comic Gamma Plus, ten Japanese volumes by 2026, English Ghost Ship edition by Seven Seas from December 2024.

Imakagami

Imakagami (今鏡), also known as Shoku Yotsugi or Kokagami, is a Japanese historical tale from about 1170, covering 146 years of court history as one of the four mirrors.

Imibongo yakaMqhayi

Imibongo yakaMqhayi ("Mqhayi's poems") is the body of poetry, largely in isiXhosa, by Samuel Mqhayi (1875–1945), the praise poet known for the Mendi poems and honored as the National Poet of the amaXhosa.

Immensee

Immensee is an 1850 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm telling of Reinhard and Elisabeth, childhood sweethearts who part; it was Storm's breakthrough, reaching more than thirty editions.

Imperial (2025 comic book)

Imperial (2025) is a four-issue Marvel Comics cosmic event limited series by Jonathan Hickman with artists Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini, published June-October 2025, depicting assassinations of intergalactic leaders that ignite war and launch the Imperial War spin-off line.

Imperial adventure romance

Imperial adventure romance is a fiction genre of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that combines romance with adventure narratives of European exploration and conquest in colonial territories.

Imran Series

Imran Series (عمران سیریز) is an Urdu spy novel series created by Ibn-e-Safi in 1955, featuring the secret agent Ali Imran, secretly the spy chief X2.

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a 1984 I Can Read Book 2 collection of seven folklore-based horror tales retold by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Dirk Zimmer, published by Harper & Row, an ALA Notable Children's Book reillustrated by Víctor Rivas in 2017.

In a Free State

In a Free State is a 1971 book by V. S. Naipaul that won the Booker Prize and links five works on the theme of displacement.

In a Glass Darkly

In a Glass Darkly is an 1872 collection of five supernatural stories by the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, best known for the vampire tale Carmilla.

In a Green Night

In a Green Night is a 1962 poetry collection by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, gathering poems written between 1948 and 1960 and establishing him as a major Caribbean voice.

In a Grove

In a Grove (Yabu no naka) is a 1922 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa detailing a samurai's death told through seven contradictory testimonies, which influenced the film Rashomon.

In a Room and a Half

In a Room and a Half (Полторы комнаты) is a 1985 autobiographical essay by Joseph Brodsky, a memoir of the Leningrad room where he lived with his parents.

In a Station of the Metro

"In a Station of the Metro" is a two-line, fourteen-word poem by Ezra Pound, first published in Poetry magazine in April 1913 and considered the best-known Imagist poem.

In a World Full of Zombies I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Get Attacked

In a World Full of Zombies I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Get Attacked (ゾンビのあふれた世界で俺だけが襲われない, Zom Ore) is a Japanese zombie apocalypse series by Rokuro Uraji: web novel 2013, Nox Novels light novel 2016, Chihiro Masuda manga 2021, TV anime delayed to January 2027 on AT-X.

In Another World with My Smartphone (異世界はスマートフォンとともに)

In Another World with My Smartphone (異世界はスマートフォンとともに。, IseSuma) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Patora Fuyuhara, begun on Narō in 2013, published by Hobby Japan in 32 volumes, with manga and two anime seasons (2017, 2023).