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    Italo Calvino (/kælˈviːnoʊ/, also US: /kɑːlˈ-/, Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist...
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  • Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. The book...
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  • notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about...
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  • on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, though Calvino died before delivering them. The lectures...
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  • italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. Calvino began the project in 1954, influenced by Vladimir Propp's Morphology...
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  • (Italian: Le cosmicomiche) is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories...
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  • Heraclitus, for Italo Calvino, Lightness is the flexible; the weightless; the mobile; the connective; vectors as distinct from structures. Italo Calvino explored...
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  • known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, and Italo Calvino, but translated many other Italian authors over the course of a career...
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  • The Baron in the Trees (category Novels by Italo Calvino)
    rampante lit. 'The Rampant Baron') is a 1957 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Described as a conte philosophique and a metaphor for independence...
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  • Lionnais. Other notable members have included novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poets Oskar Pastior and Jean Lescure, and poet/mathematician Jacques...
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    In July 1957, his son Renzo was born. Despite a positive review by Italo Calvino in L'Unità, only 1,500 copies of If This Is a Man were sold. In 1958...
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  • the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The narrative is a coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of World War II. It was Calvino's first novel. Pin,...
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    Archived 2010-04-30 at the Wayback Machine Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales p 485 ISBN 0-15-645489-0 Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales p 744 ISBN 0-15-645489-0...
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  • castello dei destini incrociati) is a 1973 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. The novel is in two parts, each using a different style of tarot deck...
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  • Qfwfq (category Italo Calvino)
    narrator of many stories appearing in several works by Italian author Italo Calvino including Cosmicomics. Qfwfq is as old as the universe and has taken...
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  • Mr. Palomar (category Novels by Italo Calvino)
    novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its original Italian title is Palomar. In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing...
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    Wikimedia Commons Calvino, Italo (23 October 2012). "Bradamante e Marfisa". Orlando furioso di Ludovico Ariosto raccontato da Italo Calvino [Orlando Furioso...
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  • ingenious analogical invention." Italo Calvino is an example of a writer in the genre who uses the term fabulist. Calvino is best known for his book trilogy...
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    "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Classics?"...
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  • single-volume edition in 1993: French augmented edition, with a preface by Italo Calvino, transl. by Yves Hersant and Geneviève Lambert, Milano: Franco Maria...
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  • September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925) September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923) September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist...
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    who wishes to force him to marry her daughter. In The Marmot Queen by Italo Calvino, a Spanish queen is turned into a rodent by Morgan le Fay. In The Mare...
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  • The Nonexistent Knight (category Novels by Italo Calvino)
    cavaliere inesistente) is an allegorical fantasy novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, first published in Italian in 1959 and in English translation in 1962...
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  • Under the Jaguar Sun (category Short story collections by Italo Calvino)
    three short stories by Italo Calvino. The stories were to have been in a book entitled I cinque sensi (The Five Senses). Calvino died before writing the...
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    Prize. Parks has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giacomo Leopardi, Cesare Pavese...
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  • Calvino usually refers to Italo Calvino, an Italian writer. Calvino may also refer to: Calvino (crater) Calvino (surname) Calvino Noir, a video game Calviño...
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  • translated Queneau's Zazie in the Metro. The Italian translation was by Italo Calvino. The Duke of Auge dreams that he is Cidrolin, living on a barge alone...
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  • "Bella Venezia" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales. Calvino selected this variant, where the heroine meets robbers...
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  • The Cloven Viscount (category Novels by Italo Calvino)
    (Italian: Il visconte dimezzato) is a fantasy novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was first published by Einaudi (Turin) in 1952 and in English in...
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  • Difficult Loves (category Short story collections by Italo Calvino)
    (Italian: Gli amori difficili) is a 1970 short story collection by Italo Calvino. It concerns love and the difficulty of communication. Some published...
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