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    Federico Fellini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter...
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  • valleys and mountains underwater. In a version from Palermo, edited by Italo Calvino, Nick Fish spends all of his time swimming, until his frustrated mother...
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    "Freemasonry and Literature: a close relationship from Carducci to Italo Calvino". adnkronos (in Italian). 18 September 2005. Archived from the original...
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    (edit by) Giulio Cesare Croce, Le sottilissime astuzie di Bertoldo (Torino: Einaudi 1973 e Milano: Berlusconi 1994) "Italo Calvino", in Dizionario critico...
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    such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy...
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    Roberto Calasso (category Burials at Isola di San Michele)
    publishing house called La Nuova Italia, in Florence, as his friend Benedetto Croce had done in Bari with Laterza. Calasso's uncle, Tristano Codignola, was...
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    Roberto Saviano (category David di Donatello winners)
    describes the tragedy suffered by the Croce family in a book published shortly after the event: Cronaca del Tremuoto di Casamicciola ("Report on the Casamicciola...
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    6miles Tronchetto 12 Santa Lucia railway station 11 Santa Croce 10 Dorsoduro 9 Castello 8 Isola di San Michele 7 Cannaregio 6 Santa Maria della Salute 5 Bridge...
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  • partisans and the final period of the Second World War in Italy. Italo Calvino called A Private Matter, "the crowning of a whole generation's efforts...
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  • (1906–1972) Achille Giovanni Cagna (1847–1931) Roberto Calasso (1941–2021) Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) Dino Campana (1885–1932) Manuela...
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    "free intellectual" was the liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were introduced in 1938, he was...
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    Luciano Berio (category Academic staff of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia)
    Two Interviews. New York: M. Boyars. "Le Onorificenze – Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" (in Italian). 20 February...
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    Benedetto Croce. He contributed to Gobetti's literary magazine Il Baretti. Montale's work, especially his first poetry collection Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish...
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    Montale Prize in 1994 for L'avversario, and for the play Ordalia della croce he received the Fondi la Postora Prize in 1994. He died of AIDS in Rome...
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    the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Other important traditional festivals are the Palio di Asti, the Palio di Legnano, the Palio di Ferrara, the Giostra...
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  • Calamandrei was highly critical of Italian fascism; he signed Benedetto Croce's 1925 Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals and was linked to the...
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    Carlo Ginzburg (category Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
    of California, Los Angeles (1988–2006), and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. His fields of interest range from the Italian Renaissance to early modern...
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    at the G.D. Cassini school, where Italo Calvino was a classmate. About his friendship with Scalfari, Calvino wrote: "Dear Eugenio, your letters are like...
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  • credited with frescoes in Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, and in the Lower Church of St. Francis in Assisi Giotto di Bondone (1266/7–1337), painter, the first...
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    anthropologist, philosopher and historian of religions. He studied with Benedetto Croce and Adolfo Omodeo, and did field research with Diego Carpitella into the...
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    onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana – Montanelli Dott. Indro – Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" (in Italian). Quirinal Palace...
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  • lustri avea. Sandro Penna died in Rome in 1977. Una strana gioia di vivere (1956) Croce e delizia (1958) Tutte le poesie (1970) Stranezze (1976) Confuso...
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    Web. 19 January 2014. Benedetto Croce. Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2014. Web. 19 January 2014. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Encyclopædia Britannica...
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  • with a thesis entitled Il melodramma di Verdi, which, thanks to the direct interest of the philosopher Benedetto Croce, would be published two years later...
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  • estrella Oscar Alfaro Spanish 1955 5+ Italian Folktales Fiable Italiane Italo Calvino Italian 1956 5+ A Tree Is Nice Janice May Udry Marc Simont English 1956...
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  • 1907. pp. 34-37. Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. Houghton Mifflin Harcour. 1980 [1956]. p. 742. ISBN 9780544283220. Discoteca di Stato (1975). Alberto...
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    allegorical fiction that critics have compared to Kafka and Beckett. Italo Calvino also ventured into fantasy in the trilogy I nostri antenati (Our Ancestors...
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    modern theatre author Luigi Pirandello in 1936, short stories writer Italo Calvino in 1960, poets Salvatore Quasimodo in 1959 and Eugenio Montale in 1975...
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    (USA) or A Tale of Santa Croce (UK) Cronaca familiare (1947), translated as "Family Chronicle" or Two Brothers Cronache di poveri amanti (1947), translated...
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  • (pseudonym) – writer, 1925 Ed Caesar – journalist, staff writer, 2015–2023 Italo Calvino – fiction writer, 1983–2017 Peter Cameron – short story writer, 1985– E...
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