Illustrator Thomas Hayman was commissioned to reimagine some of the Italian author’s best-known works to celebrate what would’ve been his 100th birthday Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and ...

Decades pass and, although Capital has often been described as an outdated text, the debate surrounding this book persists.

In Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan are sitting comfortably, the former regaling the latter with descriptions of the impossible places he has visited. Khan asks Polo ...

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel The Baron in the Trees, architect Mariana de Delás’s treehouse-like apartment is a playful experimentation of height, light, colours and material.

Mark Twain called a classic a book which people praise but don’t read, while Italo Calvino remarked, “The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: “I’m ...

"I must say that at the beginning, especially, writers were interested in my work; Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, all those people. They were my first fans," Luigi Serafini says from ...