Katherine Gregor is our new resident Italianist. Born in Rome, she is an appassionata and translator of Italian literature. In…
The Italianist: Riveting Italian Books You Need to Know About
The book I want to talk about this month opens with a very specific anecdote, setting the scene, the tone,…
Imagine, or think back to, The Little Prince (be it the Woods, Morpurgo, Testot-Ferry or any other translation). Now imagine…
On 9th July 2021, at the start of the fourth wave of the pandemic in Italy, almost five hundred workers…
Europe, after the virus: populism has spread everywhere, leading several countries to form a new, sovereigntist alliance: Nova Europa. Among…
There is a common, even infamously used, trope in books written by and about teachers who end up in a…
Maria Edgarda Marcucci is an Italian writer, and she is known as ‘Eddi’ to many friends and people who have…