The Year of History, A Novel
When Elsa Morante published La Storia. Romanzo in 1974 it was a watershed event that invested Italian society both in terms of the unprecedented success among readers and the ideologically…
Interviews
Corrado Cagli, the American Years
In the 1930’s the young Italian artist, Corrado Cagli was a rising star of the Scuola Romana, supported by the Fascist regime despite being both Jewish and a homosexual. Following…
Being anti-fascist today
Giorgio Bocca interviews Primo Levi (1985) Post-war Italian and European societies largely identified anti-Fascism as their foundation. Today, across Europe this assumption is being challenged. In an the attempt to…
Silvio Zamorani: Through Books One Thinks the World
Since the 19th century, Turin has been one of the most active centers of publishing in Italy. Next to the eminent Einaudi, there are a number of highly specialized smaller…
Remembering Carlo and Nello Rosselli
A new enlarged edition of Gaetano Salvemini’s Carlo and Nello Rosselli, A memoir, curated by Marina Calloni, to be published by CPL Editions and Viella Edizioni. Beyond the impulse to…
Bound by Books: Alex Goren and Tallone Editore
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia — and consequently New York City at large— have been fortunate to receive a most extraordinary gift: the Alberto Tallone Editore collection: some…
We Were Outsiders in Every Possible Way
In this conversation Judge Guido Calabresi, a long time friend of Centro Primo Levi, shares stories of his family’s flight from Fascist Italy —from Milan to Yale— and the ways…
History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity
Aline Sierp, History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity. Unifying Divisions, Routledge Studies in Modern European History, 2014 What is most interesting to you about memory culture in Europe? The most interesting…
Hospital Series
Amelia Rosselli’s Serie ospedaliera among the poet’s most haunting, imaginatively intense and formally rigorous collections, has just been published by New Directions as Hospital Series, translated by Deborah Woodard, Roberta…
On Translating Amelia Rosselli
Amelia Rosselli’s experimental approach to poetry and trilingual interweaving have only recently been discovered by readers of English. The daunting challenges of translating her work are only partly responsible for…