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An i mpressive literature has grown up around Italy’s partisans, those resistants who, particularly after the September 1943 ascension...

Image from Vittorio De Sica's film version of Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970) Dorian ( Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau blog) an...

One night, too many years ago, I successfully battled my parents to be allowed to stay up to finish watching a movie on TV that had ...

A recent succession of crazy winter storms in California has had me thinking of George R. Stewart’s 1941 novel Storm , a book I’...

For a striking example of what else was happening in Italian literature contemporary to Gabriele D’Annunzio , one could hardly find a...