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Elsa Morante (pronounced [ˈelsa moˈrante, ˈɛl-]; 18 August 1912 – 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel La storia ( History ) is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time.
Piazza d'Italia is the 1975 debut novel of the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is a short picaresque novel that spans from the Italian unification to the fascist era and follows Volturno Banarchist, a rebel and occasional clairvoyant. It was first published by Bompiani. [1] [2] [3]
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Piazza Italia or Piazza d'Italia may refer to: Piazza Italia, Naples; Piazza Italia, Reggio Calabria; Piazza d'Italia, Sassari; Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans; Piazza d'Italia, a 1975 novel by Antonio Tabucchi; Piazza Italia (restaurant), Portland, Oregon, U.S.
The novel uses the first person point of view. [1]In the story, police question residents of various origins in a single apartment complex. According to John Powers of National Public Radio, even though the plot is driven by police looking for the person who committed a murder, "the mystery isn't really the point."
Piazza d'Italia by Charles Moore (with Perez Architects), New Orleans. The Piazza d'Italia is an urban public plaza located behind the American Italian Cultural Center at Lafayette and Commerce Streets in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. It is controlled by the New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC), a public benefit corporation wholly owned ...
Antonio Tabucchi (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo taˈbukki]; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.
Metaphysical painting (Italian: pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality, "painting that which ...