La prima guerra mondiale, il dopoguerra, l'avvento del fascismo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1978
As an editorial director of Feltrinelli Bassani was responsible for the posthumous publication in 1958 of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo, a novel which had been rejected by Elio Vittorini at Mondadori, and Einaudi.
In 2000, for the Italian publishing house Feltrinelli, he wrote Bill Gates, an unauthorised biography (Bill Gates, una biografia non autorizzata).
Feltrinelli's life story was the subject of the 2013 concept album and theatrical performance Praxis Makes Perfect by the group Neon Neon.