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About Italo Calvino
Italian novelist and short story writer
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for the Our Ancestors trilogy, published between 1952 and 1959, and for later works such as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a winter's night a traveler. His fiction includes the three novels in Our Ancestors, the short story collection Cosmicomics, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. These works show the range of his imagination across fiction in different forms, from linked narratives to brief stories and more experimental novels.
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Books by Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo, ovvero Le stagioni in città
1966
Le città invisibili
1998
Il barone rampante
1959
I nostri antenati
1960
Sous le soleil jaguar
1990