It is 1493. Renaissance Milan is ruled by Ludovico Sforza, known as il Moro. Ten years earlier, Leonardo da Vinci…
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In his last novel (A Fine Line, see my review of May 2016), we left Carofiglio’s lawyer-hero Guido Guerrieri musing…
I didn’t stop anywhere. As I walked steadily towards the centre it struck me that it had been far too…
What a difference a year makes. On the 16th of February 2015 I wrote to the Emerging Translators Network: “Today …
The publication of Elena Ferrante’s brilliant series of novels has been the catalyst for an extraordinary and developing interest in…