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In his Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino offers a critical synthesis of his work, a rich appraisal of the Western literary tradition, and a forward-looking vision of the value of literature in the 21st century. In this presentation, Dr. Luca Cottini investigates Calvino’s Lezioni americane as a prophetic description of the internet age, […]

When praising cities in the early modern era it was typical to comment upon the advantages of their particular siting, especially when it resulted in mild temperatures and good air quality. This presentation examines ways in which early modern art theorists, Giorgio Vasari in particular, used these environmental tropes to support their outlook on Venetian art, […]

Leonardo Sciascia remains best known outside Italy as novelist and writer of idiosyncratic detective stories which aim not so much to identify individual criminals as to dissect the society in which such crimes occur and to unveil the powerful forces which benefit by them. He was also produced non-fiction books in a genre of his […]