Italo Calvino, Italian Nobel-caliber author - died this day in 1985 of a cerebral hemorrhage, while preparing for a series of lectures to be delivered at Harvard University…
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.” —I.C.
Italo Calvino outside the Einaudi Publishing House building, Torino, where he toiled on other people’s books (“I spent more time in my life working on the books of others than on my own.”)…

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