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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 15/10/2026

The BBC gave Calvino half an episode of Bookmark in 1985 when they should have given him a whole episode of Arena or Omnibus. He didn't enjoy being interviewed but he still did a lot of interviews. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2UU...

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Calvino Bookmark Interview 1985

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Italo Calvino, Italian short story writer, novelist, and journalist, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbour."

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Joseph Peschel @josephpeschel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

@bookcritics.bsky.social Italo Calvino was born today, October 15, in 1923.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Writer Italo Calvino #BicycleBirthday October 15 (1923-1985)

Photo of a man wearing a turtleneck riding a bicycle.

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Italo Calvino - BOTD

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Calvino apparently said that The Argentine Ant was not an exaggeration of the behaviour of the ants in question, and this suggests that if anything he under-sold their numbers and levels of aggression.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't usually collect different editions of the same book (unless it's an illustrated or otherwise special edition) but for £2.50 I just had to.

The cover of the Abacus edition of Italo Calvino's Time & The Hunter. The cover is a painting of a lizard-like bird on a branch with a city in the background showing skyscrapers and pillars of crystal sticking out at different angles from a green landscape

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'A country that destroys its school system never does so merely for the sake of money—because resources are lacking or costs are excessive. A country that dismantles education is already governed by those who stand only to lose from the spread of knowledge.' Italo Calvino

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

June's #CalvinoBookClub title is the club's first foray into Calvino's non-fiction - the collection of autobiographical essays The Road to San Giovanni. As ever please read along and share your thoughts with the hashtag.

The cover of The Road To San Giovanni by Italo Calvino. The top half has the title and author name in silver over a purple background, and the bottom half is a photograph of an old Italian building shaded green.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Due to unexpected events I will be finishing April's #CalvinoBookClub over the first few days of May. For those who wish to join in, we will be sticking with Calvino's realist period for May as we go Into The War - a collection of three stories set in WW2 Italy.

The cover of Into The War by Italo Calvino.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

April's #CalvinoBookClub title will be...The Watcher (1963), from The Watcher & Other Stories. For some reason this novella does not seem to have been released in the UK. This US collection also includes Smog and The Argentine Ant. The translation is by William Weaver.

The cover of The Watcher & Other Stories by Italo Calvino. It is mostly white with a painting in the top right corner of a man sitting on a chair in front if a wall.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

March 2024's Calvino Book Club title was The Cloven Viscount, a novella that is the first story in the 'Our Ancestors' collection. I first read this in the late 90s, and was maybe the 5th or 6th Calvino I read.

The cover of Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trying to decide whether to resurrect the #CalvinoBookClub seeing as I've covered all the big ones and personal favourites. Some of those were on Twitter though and no longer exist.

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities died on this day, 1985 #BookSky #ItaloCalvino

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

'The importance of Sicily to Sciascia’s writing can’t be overstated, but Calvino perhaps put it best when he said that Sciascia was a ‘local author, rooted, who had made the universal out of those roots’.'

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026

In a free episode from their Close Readings series ‘Fiction and the Fantastic’, Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin read 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 alongside the 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘰 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘰, and explore how both blur the lines between reality and fantasy. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Travel with Close Readings: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 30 August · 1hr 37min

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Andrew White @whitecomics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Under False Pretense (2023). A “biography” of Italo Calvino that adapts with varying degrees of fidelity twelve stories or books from his bibliography. It contains almost no biographical information. whitecomics.co/calvino/

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every day is a good day to read Cosmicomics.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Vol. 102, Iss. 4 of Italica is available online, featuring a special focus section on the work of Italo Calvino, plus other articles on midwifery, early modern opera, and Pasolini's 1972 documentary "12 December." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/iss...

Cover of Italica, Volume 102, Number 4, Winter 2025.
Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian.
Blue background with lighter blue silhouette of the country of Italy.

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The Ring Post @theringpost.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. What statistic allows one to identify the Nations where Literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling and suppressing it. Italo Calvino.

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Call Me Garbage Again @tambria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The city of cats and The city of men Exist one inside the other, But they are not the same city. Italo Calvino

Sabrina the Elusive black cat exiting to the backyard lawn from between firewood stacks while on a hunt

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'(B)ehind the city that we see there is one that we do not see, and that's the one that matters.' - Italo Calvino.à

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Nathalie F @loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Finished Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, it's a nice short read. The way it fears how words kill the abstract and the horror of infinite roads never traveled (the should've could've would'ves) through eulogies is great. Choosing negative space for the large fonts really stands out to me.

Passage from Invisible Cities:

"When a man rides a long time through the wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference.
The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories."

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In the first chapter of 'If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller', Italo Calvino introduces a character – the character is named 'you' – who has just walked into a bookshop to buy a copy of a newly published book, 'If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller', by Italo Calvino. drb.ie/article/the-...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I saw Nolan's Odyssey last week. I'm seeing it again tomorrow in 15/70 IMAX. I've been reading multiple translations of Homer's Odyssey and viewing multiple film adaptations. This Italo Calvino essay has been helping me focus on what I feel matters in all this. www.nybooks.com/articles/198...

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Why Read the Classics? | Italo Calvino

A classic does not necessarily teach us anything we did not know before. In a classic we sometimes discover something we have always known (or thought we knew), but without knowing that this author sa...

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Not including If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Invisible Cities or Cosmicomics, what are your essential Calvino works and why? Could be books, stories or articles.

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Jacob Wolf Lefton @watermosaic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hi! I'm looking for an editor who feels very well acquainted with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities to help me with a zine project in the next few weeks. Please link me prior work below or in a DM.

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SonakshiS @sonakshis11.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One where I consider the overlap between Italo Calvino’s Il barone rampante and Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard—exploring themes such as capitalism, colonialism, and what eco-consciousness might look like in our contemporary times: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/07...

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(In)habiting Arboreal Cosmos: Where Calvino meets Desai - Asymptote Blog

. . . the Italian Cosimo and the Indian Sampath portray, in varying valences, what eco-consciousness may look like in our contemporary times.

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Dera @martidac.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Crying over Calvino tonight

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

'You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.' Blew my mind at 16.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Imagine leaving behind so many uncollected stories when you die and they add up to a book as rich as 'Numbers In The Dark'.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Adding to my small library of Calvino study books.

A picture of 'Italo Calvino's Architecture if Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban Crisis' by Letizia Modena.

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Mirta Illustrator @mirtaiki.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's #kidlitartpostcard day! Every first Thursday of the month. Here it is my illustration for The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 02/07/2026

Italo Calvino traveling in the US in 1960: “Capitalism wraps itself round & permeates everything…We are in a totalitarian structure of a medieval kind, based on the fact that no alternative exists nor even any awareness of the possibility of an alternative other than that of individualist escapism.”

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Italo Calvino: escapism.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Italo Calvino: The Literature Machine. I've never read "Ulysses".

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 26/06/2026

Italo Calvino, writing home after crossing the Atlantic on a luxury ocean liner filled with aging rich people: “Long live Socialism. Long live Aviation.”

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Palomar @palomar-qfwfq.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Have you all seen the Visconti Tarot designs? This is btw one of the decks used by Italo Calvino in his ‘Castle of Crossed Destinies’. Note: The Bergamo copy/version of this deck was missing 4 cards incl. The Tower & The Devil face cards, so the version of The Tower you see here is a modern attempt.

Visconti Tarot Box cover. It shows The Magician (I)

The Fool (0), left
The Wheel of Fortune (X), right

The Hanged Man (XII), left
Death (XIII), right

The Stars (XVII), top left
The Sun (XIX), top center
The Moon (XVIII), top right
The Tower (XVI), bottom left
Judgement (XX), bottom center
The World (XXI), bottom right

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Inadvertently been reposting some AI-generated images. These have been removed from this account's history. Apologies.

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

For the Italian-speakers out there. Other episodes have also been uploaded to YouTube. youtu.be/l7zpY9FCwo8?...

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"Marcovaldo" (1° episodio)

YouTube video by Cristiano Sodano

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A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Also...wait, what? 'There’s only been one previous adaptation of the famed Italian author Calvino’s work, that being the 1969 movie The Nonexistent Knight directed by Pino Zac.' I assume they mean film adaptation as I know there was an Italian television series based on Marcovaldo.

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