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Arts - 15 Settembre 2019

Carlo Levi’s “Blind Visions”, Never Seen Outside of Italy, on Display at NYU

In 1973, while bedridden, Levi used a special wooden notebook, built with strings attached to the sides to help guide his hand when drawing or writing. He labeled it "Quaderno a cancelli" (fenced notebook), the name given to his final collection of prose and poetry that accompanies these blind drawings, produced with pencil, pastels and ballpoint pen.

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Arts - 27 Ottobre 2017

Richard Gere Reads Italo Calvino with the “Baron’s Daughter”

The launch of the new translation of Calvino's novel “The Baron in the Trees” gives NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò the chance to bring Giovanna Calvino and Richard Gere together. “‘The Baron in the Trees’ is the world of dreams I would like to live”, says the actor. Gere sounds eloquent, savvy, sophisticated in the way he associates the writer’s work to other masters of international literature

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