Progetto Babele is a literary magazine founded in 2002 by Marco Roberto Capelli

Marco Roberto Capelli

Marco Roberto Capelli is an Italian poet, translator and writer. As lyrics writer he published four CDs with Martiria and Power Project, working with artists as Vinny Appice, Carl Sentance, and ex-Warlords singer Rick Anderson....

. The magazine can be bought in paper format or downloaded for free as a PDF file through the site with the same name. Nowadays 19 numbers of the regular issue and 6 "special issues" have been published, for a total of over 2000 pages.

Progetto Babele's principal goals are: the presentation of works of new authors, articles of literature, interviews and special features on well-known writers. A number of writers have been hosted so far, among which are Corrado Augias

Corrado Augias

Corradio Augias is an Italian journalist, writer and TV host. He was also briefly a member of the European Parliament in 1994–1999 for the Democratic Party of the Left....

, Valerio Evangelisti

Valerio Evangelisti

Valerio Evangelisti is one of the most popular Italian writers of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquistor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamus trilogy, all bestsellers translated into many languages...

, Michael Hoeye

Michael Hoeye

Michael Hoeye is the author of "The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures" series of children's fiction mystery novels - Time Stops for No Mouse, The Sands Of Time, No Time Like Show Time and the newest book in the series, Time to Smell the Roses. He and his wife, Martha, live in Oregon, U.S...

, Fernando Sorrentino

Fernando Sorrentino

Fernando Sorrentino is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires on November 8, 1942. His works have been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Vietnamese,Tamil and Kabyle....

, Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics...

, Tullio Avoledo

Tullio Avoledo

Tullio Avoledo is an Italian novelist.-Biography:Avoledo was born in Valvasone, in the province of Pordenone...

, Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini is an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.- Context :Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine Il Verri, co-directed Alfabeta and was one of the Italian writers...

, Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for twenty-one years . His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels...

, Piersandro Pallavicini

Piersandro Pallavicini

Piersandro Pallavicini is an Italian writer and researcher. He started publishing short stories on literary magazines, such as Versodove, Addictions, 'Tina ans Fernandel, in the early Nineties...

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Two sections are Traducendo Traducendo (Translating Translating), which often introduces renowned foreign authors still unpublished or of little fame in Italy, and Riscoperte (Rediscoveries), a section of facts and people of some relevance forgotten in Italian literature and music. In charge for this last section is Carlo Santulli.
Since 2007 is also available an audiobooks section, where it is possible to download dramatized versions of some of the short stories published on the magazine.

Some sections of Progetto Babele website are also in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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