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Homecoming: Returning to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities after 50 Years
The articles in this special collection are a tribute to Italo Calvino and a work of fiction that has not lost its power to fascinate readers and scholars for over half a century.
Maoz Azaryahu, Kenneth E. Foote
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The Petriverse of Italo Calvino
This essay considers Calvino’s Six Memos and other works in the context of the ‘geologic turn’ in contemporary environmental humanities. The introductory section shows how Calvino anticipated key notions now becoming prevalent in this work, including an ontology and ethics that respects “the unity of all things, animate or inanimate” ( Memos ).
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Italo Calvino: the representation of the war space in the Sentiero dei nidi di ragno
reservedLa proposta di questo l’elaborato di tesi triennale è stata quella di mettere in luce e approfondire, attraverso l’analisi del primo romanzo di Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, come l’autore abbia raffigurato, descritto e inserito ...
DE BARI, ALESSIA
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From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences. [PDF]
Dröscher A.
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The Image of the Middle Ages in Italo Calvino’s Trilogy “Our Ancestors”
The article delves into the study of the medieval past in the European historical consciousness and cultural memory after the World War II. Reception and representation of the Middle Ages are considered as constants of the development of European and ...
A. A. Zaitsev
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Il centenario della nascita di Italo Calvino (1923-1985) ha offerto l’occasione di aprire nuovi cantieri di studio su un autore centrale nel canone letterario novecentesco e di riflettere sulle sue opere a partire dalla bibliografia più recente.
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Climatologists have been warning that "we have little time left", but in the meantime, energy resources are running out and whole populations flee in search of food and security, while in capitalist financial systems the resources are held by a few. If this is today's picture, what should we do?
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Ironic Practices as Pedagogical Tools for Accomplishing Italo Calvino’s Lightness
This essay begins with the premise that Italo Calvino’s Memos serve as a fundamentally educational proposition. Each of his lectures can be regarded as a substantive proposal, encouraging a revaluation of our contemporary world through unconventional ...
Bianca Thoilliez
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UN MODO DI STARE AL MONDO. ITALO CALVINO E L'AMERICA
Una frase ricorrente nella produzione di Italo Calvino viene scelta come motto riassuntivo della sua vicenda artistica, intellettuale e umana: occorre scegliere un "modo di stare al mondo" e rimanere fedeli ad esso.
CASTELLUCCI, Paola
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Volumen XI de la revista Zibaldone. Estudios italianos, dedicado en esta ocasión a Italo Calvino (1923-1985) y Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), en ambos casos con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento.
Juan Francisco Reyes Montero
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