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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

First harvest from my fig tree this year.

Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Crushed about #Baresi. One of the best defenders ever, man of records, icon of AC Milan and Italy, he combined elegance and grit, leadership and vision. In the '94 WC, he ripped his meniscus early on, got surgery, recovered, and got ready to play the final where he dominated. Ciao, capitano.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Summers are for intensive reading. Keeping up with scholarship, new novels, old translations, poetry, ancient epics and their cinematographic adaptations, books about soccer tactics and their historical evolution. And writing: articles, reviews, book manuscript. In the company of these flowers.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It‘a worth remembering all of this. As always, grateful for Emily Wilson’s leadership on all things Homeric.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A fox in our backyard. Stretching and warming up in the sun on a winter day.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My teaching of Ovid always involves a discussion of Persephone's act of resistance to Hades and the ancient belief in the contraceptive properties of pomegranates, so central to the story. I also mention how much I love this fruit. And so my students gave me a pomegranate today.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel prize sparked pride in Trieste where he owns a home. Il Piccolo calls him a “Triestino by choice,” who “brought the Nobel prize to Trieste”. Bandwagon jump or legitimate point? In my book, a few reasons for adopting this literary home. www.bloomsbury.com/us/modernism...

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Modernism in Trieste

When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salva…

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

My Mount Etna figs are doing so well in Baltimore. Got this tree seven years ago when it was a little sprig. With patience and love (and fighting off ravenous squirrels) I have been cultivating this tree that reminds me of home. I love my summer morning ritual to harvest some figs for breakfast.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Very excited to work with some really smart and thoughtful people on the idea of Central Europe.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Rather Good News. Bookmark now.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

History on the hammock and soccer on my mind.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic. Egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Liebe ist die Mitherrschende Bürgerin eines blühenden Freistaates. Egoismus ein Despot in einer verwüsteten Schöpfung. Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters 1797-1798

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A little fox (maybe a puppy?) resting in a driveway in our neighborhood.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Lovely, stimulating, and productive conversations at the Mitteleuropa and Central Europe workshop conference at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social for the generous hospitality.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As the semester is wrapping up, a former student who now works in the building stops by to thank me for my courses on Homer, Joyce, Ovid, and the Phoenicians. Overwhelmed by such gratitude, I realize I don’t have a vase for these beautiful flowers. Our department water bottle came to the rescue.

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Salvatore Pappalardo @salvapappalardo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hi, there. I am new here. This is how I spend most of time, reading in German and Austrian literatures and cultures, as well as Italian and Sicilian fiction. I am interested in how literary texts imagine cultural and political communities across Europe and the Mediterranean.

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