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Tomb of Anthony Burgess (source: Wikipedia) While only about a tenth of Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli’s 2,279 Romanesco sonnets seem t...

I’ve been having a ball learning about Roman poet Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (1791-1863). Belli is, from first glance, a striking wr...

I’ve been focusing on Italian literature now for many months, so Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio (more precisely The Adventures of Pinoc...