Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany. Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. In an autobiographical essay, Italo Calvino explained that his father "had been in his youth an anarchist, a follower of Kropotkin and then a Socialist Reformist". In 1917, Mario left for Cuba to conduct scientific experiments, after living through the Mexican Revolution. Calvino's mother, Giuliana Luigia Evelina "Eva" Mameli, was a botanist and university professor. A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while still a junior lecturer at Pavia University. Born into a secular family, Eva was a pacifist educated in the "religion of civic duty and science". Eva gave Calvino his unusual first name to remind him of his Italian heritage, although since he wound up growing up in Italy after all, Calvino thought his name sounded "belligerently nationalist". Calvino described his parents as being "very different in personality from one another", suggesting perhaps deeper tensions behind a comfortable, albeit strict, middle-class upbringing devoid of conflict. As an adolescent, he found it hard relating to poverty and the working-class, and was "ill at ease" with his parents' openness to the labourers who filed into his father's study on Saturdays to receive their weekly paycheck. In 1925, less than two years after Calvino's birth, the family returned to Italy and settled permanently in Sanremo on the Ligurian coast. Calvino's brother Floriano, who became a distinguished geologist, was born in 1927. ... Source: Article "Italo Calvino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Isihloko: Italo Calvino
  • Ukuthandwa: 1.567
  • Yaziwa ngokuba: Writing
  • Usuku lokuzalwa: 1923-10-15
  • Indawo yokuzalelwa: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba
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Italo Calvino Iimuvi

  • 2003
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    Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur

    Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur

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  • 2023
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    Italo Calvino - Lo scrittore sugli alberi

    Italo Calvino - Lo scrittore sugli alberi

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  • 1962
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    Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane

    Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane

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  • 1962
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    L'amore difficile

    L'amore difficile

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  • 1970
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    The Baron in the Trees

    The Baron in the Trees

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  • 1962
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    Boccaccio '70

    Boccaccio '70

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  • 2013
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    The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

    The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

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  • 1973
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    L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

    L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

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  • 1969
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    Il cavaliere inesistente

    Il cavaliere inesistente

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  • 1984
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    Ein Bett mit Passagieren

    Ein Bett mit Passagieren

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  • 2012
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    The Ogre's Feathers

    The Ogre's Feathers

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  • 2018
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    The North Wind's Gift

    The North Wind's Gift

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  • 1999
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    Le château des singes

    Le château des singes

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  • 2019
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    Le Voyage du Prince

    Le Voyage du Prince

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  • 2009
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    Cidades Invisíveis

    Cidades Invisíveis

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

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