This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a win…
The Italian author recalls his years as a teenager, during Mussolini's rule, the liberation, and the Cold War; his life in Paris and New York; and his travels through the United States in 1959 and 1960.
"This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet from Italy, the UK and the USA address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante …
LEGENDA is a joint imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing. Titles range from medieval texts to contemporary cinema and form a widely comparative view of the modern humanities."--Jacket. Zygmunt G. Barariski is Serena Professor of Italian, Uni…
"This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet from Italy, the UK and the USA address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante …
