Italo Calvino

Leland de la Durantaye reviews the letters of Italo Calvino, who fought fascists in World War II & issued a clarion call for responsibility in a “torn-apart world”: We must “seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno”—and devote to them our every effort.

Rome 1960. Pier Paolo Pasolini met Italo Calvino bij Caffè Rosati aan de Piazza del Popolo.

I never deliberately use AI, but I did a search on Bing and it's AI suggestion is that the short story 'Going To Headquarters' is about a young boy walking with a watering can, watering plants in a garden. Reader, it is not about that.

19 septembre 1985 : Mort d’Italo Calvino, écrivain italien. #CeJourLa

Italo Calvino 💕 📚 🌹 Italian writer and essayist. Died September 19, 1985 "Each page is only worth something when you turn it, and behind it, there is life moving, inextricably intertwining all the pages of the book." The Nonexistent Knight (1959)

Italo Calvino's 'literature machine' is a prescient vision of the perils and promise of artificial intelligence. Calvino and the machines | Alexander Lee engelsbergideas.com/notebook/cal...

Italian novelist Italo Calvino, who fought fascist forces in World War II and took up writing after the war, died this week in 1985. In this review of his letters from 2013, Leland de la Durantaye reflects on his life and legacy:

Italo Calvino sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/calvin... died & William Golding sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/goldin... was born on this day: some of their book covers (Artist: 3rd by Paul Hogarth, couldn't identify the others). 1&2 are Farsi editions of Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night..." and "Cosmicomics":

Italo Calvino, who shuffled off this moral coil on this day in 1985, was one of the greats. “Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”

You must read this Italian folktale, one of 200 compiled by Italo Calvino.

I actually own a copy of this number of The London Magazine. For many years this was the only place you could find this story in English, until Into The War was finally translated and released in 2011.

Behind the scenes footage of the production of Invisible Cities that I saw at the Manchester International Festival 6 years ago. youtu.be/UFvlTPoeHbY?...

'Based on “Invisible Cities” – a hybrid theatre/dance piece from 59 Productions and Rambert – Stones of Venice is a digital glimpse of the world that will be brought to life live on stage next year for the 2021 New Vision Arts Festival.' youtu.be/y1p7cbXcSGg?...

I’m obviously a fan of Calvino — a few of the reviews of my book rightly invoke him as an inspiration for the way I write — and one of my favorite things that he does is how he can condense the tragedy of a life in one or two paragraphs. It’s so light, but it doesn’t feel like anything is missed

This piece is from a series of illustrations inspired by “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino, as interpreted by Federica Bordoni @_federica_bordoni_ “Each city is described in a surreal way, titled with a woman’s name and I focused on this particular aspect, merging the woman into the city itself.”…

Cosmicomics. Easy.

‘The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.’ --Italo Calvino

The distance of the moon by italo calvino

“Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.” —Italo Calvino

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino #booksky 💙📚 #design #books #literature

A quick update on the podcast. There hasn't been an episode for a while - I've been trying and failing to write the next one, and I've realised it's a sign that i'm approaching it from the wrong angle and will need to start again. I do have some guests lined up for future episodes.

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Congratulations to Claudia Dellacasa, lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Durham alumna, on winning the XXIV International Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies Luca Attanasio, for "Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs".

It's likely trite to say, but reading the short story "World Memory" by Italo Calvino in an age of climate degradation, excessive data harvesting and the insidious rewriting of global events is a harrowing, fascinating feeling. #Reading #ItaloCalvino #ShortStory

A Plunge Into Calvino guest @kaggsy59.bsky.social 's book blog has just turned 13. The blog contains several Calvino reviews among many others.

Not about Calvino, but as Pavase was one of his literary mentors I thought it worth sharing here. www.youtube.com/live/pxddyXD...

With: Michael Wood (Princeton University) Martin McLaughlin (Oxford University) Readings by Josh Hamilton (actor) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University November 19, 2013 youtu.be/srlV_9KDK8w?...

Sure. All correct. One of the reasons to enjoy stories that reset expectations to match reality. One of my favorite discoveries in Granta magazine was reading the Black Sheep by Italo Calvino. Made for chuckling darkly while smoking beneath the covers in bed. granta.com/the-black-sh...

'A panel of specialists engaged in a conversation on Calvino’s insights, wrestling with topics such as artificial intelligence, the role of literature, and the urban and natural environments.' youtu.be/KrnaShnpNts?...

'Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the department of architecture and design of the Museum of Modern Art, and Maria Popova , founder and editor of the extremely popular blog Brain Pickings, met up at the Italian Cultural Institute... Special guest star, Giovanna Calvino' youtu.be/aSu4DLzhTQ8?...

youtu.be/rZ0OzHUz7iA?... «From "Celebrating Italo Calvino", a tribute to Italo Calvino held on October 22, 1999 at The Cooper Union in New York.»

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts - Italo Calvino

Now also available through Metalabel with a very affordable $7 epub+pdf version inc. the album. Check it out! #ai #calvino #newbooks subtext-books.metalabel.com/cybernetics-...

Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino youtu.be/ypCUYU0D4aA?...

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True coziness in fiction comes from language, not from lattes, argues @pyramidmaster.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/05/25/i...

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss. Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium

"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner." Italo Calvino.