Calvino in a sentence

Calvino, 'Objective Biographical Notice', Hermit in Paris, 164. For two years, Calvino collated tales found in 19th century collections across Italy then translated 200 of the finest from various dialects into Italian.

Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni, 10. A fan of Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in stories made him the "black sheep" of a family that held literature in less esteem than the sciences.

More exhaustive bibliographies can be found in Martin McLaughlin 's Italo Calvino, and Beno Weiss's Understanding Italo Calvino.

Former Spanish economy minister Nadia Calvino replaced Hoyer in January after a fierce battle for the job with the EU’s current competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager.

Schnapp adopts Calvino’s five surviving topics wholesale: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.

After his mother died in 1978 at the age of 92, Calvino sold Villa Meridiana, the family home in San Remo.

Calvino, 'Behind the Success' in Hermit in Paris, 224. His first novel, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno ( The Path to the Nest of Spiders ) written with valuable editorial advice from Pavese, won the Premio Riccione on publication in 1947.

Calvino defined his family's traditions as "a humanitarian Socialism, and before that Mazzinianism".

Calvino, 'Introduction by the author', Our Ancestors, vii.

Calvino, "Introduction" in Our Ancestors, x He found new outlets for his periodic writings in the journals Città aperta and Tempo presente, the magazine Passato e presente, and the weekly Italia Domani.

Calvino, 'Political Autobiography of a Young Man', Hermit in Paris, 146. In spring 1944, Eva encouraged her sons to enter the Italian Resistance in the name of "natural justice and family virtues".

Calvino recalled this sudden, forced transformation of a dreamy adolescent into a partisan soldier as one bounded by logic since "the logic of the Resistance was the very logic of our urge towards life".

Calvino's mother, Eva Mameli, was a botanist and university professor.

Calvino takes the fact that the Moon used to be much closer to the Earth, and builds a story about a love triangle among people who used to jump between the Earth and the Moon, in which lovers drift apart as the Moon recedes.

Calvino transferred to the University of Florence in 1943 and reluctantly passed three more exams in agriculture.

Cf. Calvino, 'Behind the Success' in Hermit in Paris, 225. He often humorously belittled this choice, describing Turin as a "city that is serious but sad".

Cf. Weiss, Understanding Italo Calvino, 3. The horror of the war had not only provided the raw material for his literary ambitions but deepened his commitment to the Communist cause.

Despite a positive review by Italo Calvino in L'Unità main, only 1,500 copies of If This Is a Man were sold.

Despite the triumph, Calvino grew increasingly worried by his inability to compose a worthy second novel.

During the summer of 1985, Calvino prepared a series of texts on literature for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures to be delivered at Harvard University in the fall.