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Italian literature

The Torment and the Engine

by Elena Ferrante,

From an interview in the Spring 2015 issue of The Paris Review. Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist whose books include The Days of Abandonment, My Brilliant…

Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone

by Joshua Cohen,

On the first full translation of a masterwork by Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837)

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by Harper’s Staff,

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