A major show on Italian writer Italo
Calvino opens Friday at the Scuderie del Qurinale marking the
100th anniversary of his birth.
The exhibition, 'Fabulous Calvino, the world as work of art,
Carpaccio, de Chirico, Gnoli, Melotti and the others', was
inaugurated by President Sergio Mattarella Thursday and will run
until February 4 2024.
Organizers said they aimed to "illustrate Calvino's gaze on the
world, uncovering many unexplored aspects of his life and work".
The show features over 400 loans including portraits of Calvino
by Tullio Pericoli and Carlo Levi, photographs with Natalia
Ginzburg and with Elio Vittorini in the Einaudi years, book
covers, and first editions of iconic works like Il Barone
Rampante (The Baron in the Trees, 1957).
"But it isn't a biographical show," said curator Mario Barenghi,
"this exhibition wants to bring people closer to Calvino's
imaginary world."
Calvino, who was also a great cultural journalist, died on 19th
September 1985 aged 62.
He was born on October 15, 1923.
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), as well as the lecture collection Six
Memos for the Next Millennium, which he died before delivering
at Harvard.
Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was
the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of
his death.[
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