Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. 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). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany. Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. In an autobiographical essay, Italo Calvino explained that his father "had been in his youth an anarchist, a follower of Kropotkin and then a Socialist Reformist". In 1917, Mario left for Cuba to conduct scientific experiments, after living through the Mexican Revolution. Calvino's mother, Giuliana Luigia Evelina "Eva" Mameli, was a botanist and university professor. A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while still a junior lecturer at Pavia University. Born into a secular family, Eva was a pacifist educated in the "religion of civic duty and science". Eva gave Calvino his unusual first name to remind him of his Italian heritage, although since he wound up growing up in Italy after all, Calvino thought his name sounded "belligerently nationalist". Calvino described his parents as being "very different in personality from one another", suggesting perhaps deeper tensions behind a comfortable, albeit strict, middle-class upbringing devoid of conflict. As an adolescent, he found it hard relating to poverty and the working-class, and was "ill at ease" with his parents' openness to the labourers who filed into his father's study on Saturdays to receive their weekly paycheck. In 1925, less than two years after Calvino's birth, the family returned to Italy and settled permanently in Sanremo on the Ligurian coast. Calvino's brother Floriano, who became a distinguished geologist, was born in 1927. ... Source: Article "Italo Calvino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Italo Calvino
  • Popularity: 1.004
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1923-10-15
  • Place of Birth: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba
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Italo Calvino Movies

  • 2003
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    Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

    Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

    6.3 2003 HD

    A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he...

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  • 2023
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    The Writer in the Trees

    The Writer in the Trees

    6.5 2023 HD

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  • 1962
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    Tiko and the Shark

    Tiko and the Shark

    7.5 1962 HD

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  • 1962
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    Sex Can Be Difficult

    Sex Can Be Difficult

    6 1962 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Baron in the Trees

    The Baron in the Trees

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1962
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    Boccaccio '70

    Boccaccio '70

    6.93 1962 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

    The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1973
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    L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

    L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Nonexistent Knight

    The Nonexistent Knight

    6.7 1969 HD

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  • 1984
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    Ein Bett mit Passagieren

    Ein Bett mit Passagieren

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2012
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    The Ogre's Feathers

    The Ogre's Feathers

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2018
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    The North Wind's Gift

    The North Wind's Gift

    1 2018 HD

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  • 1999
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    A Monkey's Tale

    A Monkey's Tale

    6.3 1999 HD

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  • 2019
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    The Prince’s Voyage

    The Prince’s Voyage

    6.8 2019 HD

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  • 2009
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    Cidades Invisíveis

    Cidades Invisíveis

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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