Next up for #WoltjerFamilyBookClub. This amazing book was gifted to me by @qsprite.bsky.social. I’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to introduce it to my children. That time has arrived. #yalit #italianlit

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The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Dick Davis, published by Daunt Books

May the only pain that finds me be the pain inflicted by great literature. I finished The City and the House yesterday, my fifth and favourite Ginzburg so far.
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A mirror to a life: Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben A form of life that keeps itself in relation to a poetic practice, however that may be, is always in the studio, always in the studio. Granted that what Giorgio Agamben calls a “studio” might be be…

“While all our faculties seem to dimmish and fail us, the imagination grows to excess and takes up all possible space.” – Giorgio Agamben #ItalianLit #SeagullBooks
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Wonderful talk with @annawainwright.bsky.social about Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance #skystorians #history #genderstudies #Renaissance #EarlyModernist #ItalianLit
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Did you know Gabriele d'Annunzio’s *San Pantaleone* (1901) captured Italy’s rural ethos while foreshadowing his shift from literature to political activism? This collection reveals the seeds of his later Fascist influence. (Q20009790) #ItalianLit #Modernism #DAnnunzio

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism EN : Umberto Eco : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Ur-Fascism speech by Umberto Eco (English)

Anyway, read Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism while it's still legal for you to own a copy of Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism, while it's still legal for the Internet Archive to exist.
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Six Minutes - Lunch Ticket Six Minutes One night, walking along the sidewalk that coasts a little park that is not enclosed, a park with wooden benches covered in sentences written in permanent marker, a swing on the edge of a ...

"in the right-hand pocket of my coat next to a white handkerchief with pink geometric lines, hair in a pony-tail, and a hand pulling it, my head snapping back, all at once, at six minutes..."
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11/20

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10/20

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7/20

Confessioni di un italiano by Ippolito Nievo book cover

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5/20

What are you all working on? 💙📚 At the moment, I'm translating a sport romance novel and I'm learning way more than I would've never thought possible about ice hockey terminology.

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#ItalianLitMonth n.49: A New Translation of Dante: The Music I Kept Hearing in My Head by Michael Palma Dante’s contemporary fortunes have been especially various, I believe, in the United States and Great Britain, where translations have appeared, and continue to appear, at a remark…

Italian Lit Month n.49, by Michael Palma!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.47: Reclaiming Puglia in Mario Desiati’s Spatriati by Michael F. Moore Martina Franca, in Puglia, is the hometown of the writer Mario Desiati, and the setting of almost all of his novels. The town, and indeed the region as a whole, is so ubiquitous…

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#ItalianLitMonth n.46: Q&A with Translator Jamie Richards Conducted by Jeanne Bonner by Jeanne Bonner Jamie Richards has translated the works of some of the most celebrated writers working in Italy today, including Igiaba Scego and Viola di Grado. She won the 2024 National Translat…

Italian Lit Month n.46, by Jeanne Bonner, with Jamie Richards!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.45: Six Italian Literary and Translation Awards You Should Know About by Leah Janeczko They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but if the cover boasts one of these six awards, it means that judges somewhere in the world have deemed the book shelfworthy. Tho…

Italian Lit Month n.45, by Leah Janeczko!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.44: On Translating Camilleri: Notes from the Purer Linguistic Sphere of Translation by Stephen Sartarelli I have always believed—at least when translating prose—that a literary translator should be like the arbiter or umpire of a sporting event: the less noticed the better. Whenev…

Italian Lit Month n.44, by Stephen Sartarelli!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.43: Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City by Howard Curtis Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City was first published in Italy in 1973, when its author, like the book’s protagonist, was a young journalist in Rome: this was his fi…

Italian Lit Month n.43, by Howard Curtis!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.42: An Interview with Italian ‘Authorpreneur’ Filippo Iannarone by Lori Hetherington Italian author Filippo Iannarone began investing in his writing ten years ago. His first book, a historical mystery entitled Il Complotto Toscanini, was published traditionally…

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#ItalianLitMonth n.41: Vice Versa: Translators Across the Language Divide by Richard Dixon Translation is a solitary pursuit. Our closest work companion is our dictionary. Then, if we’re lucky, we find a group of virtual colleagues to whom we can turn for help. We transl…

Italian Lit Month n.41, by Richard Dixon!

Vice Versa: a brilliant, helpful program for literary translators.

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#ItalianLitMonth n.40: Jack Zipes: Encounters with Gianni Rodari and His Grammar of Fantasy by Jack Zipes I never expected to meet Gianni Rodari, and unfortunately I never did meet him. Nevertheless, he is a real force in my life, a life force, as are many other people whom I have encount…

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#ItalianLitMonth n.39: Translating Sensitive Content in From Another World by Evelina Santangelo by Ruth Clarke From Another World is primarily the story of Khaled, a child migrant who has decided to retrace his journey back home, away from a Europe that he fails to understand. At the same tim…

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#ItalianLitMonth n.38: Conversations: A Look Inside Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds by Catherine Theis This week, the University of Chicago Press’ Phoenix Poets Series has released Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds, the first full-length translation of her poems in English. As her …

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#ItalianLitMonth n.37: Playing Pretend in Dante’s Inferno (and Other Italian Stories) by Alex Valente Art by Daniela Giubellini Each step will be harder than the last. The first is undoubtedly the easiest. All it takes to find the Eternal Gate is to lose your way. But fear not, trav…

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#ItalianLitMonth n.36: Walking the Philosophical Tightrope by Karen Whittle Translating philosophy is no easy task. It is a balancing act in which the translator has to weigh up every single word in order to convey precisely what the author means to say. T…

Italian Lit Month n.36, by Karen Whittle!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.35: Katherine Gregor and Babas Discuss How to Train Your Human: A Cat’s Guide A conversation with Italian author Babas, a.k.a. Barbara Capponi, with Katherine Gregor about Katherine’s English translation of her book How to Train Your Human (HarperVia, 2024) A book that…

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#ItalianLitMonth n.34: Natalia Ginzburg and Italian Women Writers in Translation by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva In the wake of Elena Ferrante’s global popularity, it has become somewhat of a trend for mainstream publications to “introduce” or “discover” other Italian women writer…

Italian Lit Month n.34, by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva!

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