My first article for The Italianist appeared a year ago this month. I don’t know about you but I can’t…
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The Dwarves’ Market They say that there’s a secluded place in Sicily where, on Christmas Eve, an enchanted fair takes…
A publisher I once tried to interest in translating Italian fairy-tales said to me, “We don’t think of Italy when…
While we were on the plane, I realised I’d never been on a trip like this before. I’d travelled with…
When Dolores loses her eighteen-year-old daughter to cancer, her three friends drop everything – their own families, jobs, boyfriends and…
June 1915, the war When I was a child, I saw a pack of wolves in these mountains. My father…
When I was a child, every now and then I had a dream which hasn’t ceased to recur in different…
Piedmont, 1969. The lifeless bodies of two missing children are unearthed after an anonymous letter is received by the local…
October 1672Box number four […] She pushes the leafless branches of a hawthorn aside and ventures through nettles, belly-high; her…
Lombardy, Autumn 1652. Weary of being abused by the nobility and the soldiers that keep pillaging the land, a group…
PONT DU GARD Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France The tallest bridge built by the Ancient Romans around 20 BC was part of an…
Fifty bridges, sketched in black, bathed in blue and white. Bridges built using stone or timber, made of powerful tree…
