John Florio – The Anglified Italian Who Invented William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is – let us put it this way – the least English of English writers. The…
Writings
City of Sinners
The crackpot was supposedly a group calling itself TEFF: The Ethnic Freedom Fighters.…
Cattivo Ragazzino
Mid-afternoon rays fell through the bay window’s lace curtain veil to rest warmly on…
The Blue House
The man opens his eyes and sees the boy. He has come to sit beside him on the…
lasso the moon
what is it you want? I ain’t no jimmy stewart but just say the word by this lake that…
On Leave-Taking And Monuments
No one leaves country, home, all he has loved, unless driven by a powerful necessity. In…
The Fourth Wife
To look at Uncle Enzo you’d be hard pressed to believe that this short mild-mannered…
Walking Code – The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town
In The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance…
Laura
A freak snowstorm diverted the London-Venice flight to Monfalcone – an industrial town…
How an Emperor Helped Lorenzo Da Ponte Get to America
There was one foreigner come aboard. Navigating by starlight, you might say. Only a hard…