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Calvino did not start his literary career as the Rod Serling of the novel. His first major work, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, was part of the Italian neo-realist movement that emerged from the wreckage of Fascist Italy. Two thirds of the stories in Difficult Loves comes from this period from...
This grouping of eight 'Riviera stories' is seemingly a series of unsophisticated vignettes of rural Italian childhood and adolescence. Two playmates discover "The Enchanted Garden," the unused private playground of a sickly, lonely boy. The son of a landowner must confront the social discomfort of "A Goatherd at Luncheon." Two gangs fight on the wreckage of a mysterious "Ship Loaded with Crabs." The stories are linked by a single theme, the confrontation of youthful opposites in the magical richness of the Mediterranean...
...wartime: foraging for food, crossing a minefield, running messages for the Resistance. The worst shot in a village hunts a German soldier in "The Animal Woods," a zoological Times Square of distracting animals. This neo-folktale is an early sign of the interest that led Calvino to compile the "Italian Folktales," the greatest collection of folklore since the Brothers Grim...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage-Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s...
...less by Bramante and Bernini, whose work I studied in Rome." Indeed, both lines of influence are visible in Meier's work. His buildings reflect Le Corbusier's interplay of geometric forms, and they are as flooded with natural light as the churches of the 17th century Italian baroque masters...