Books

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Edoardo Sanguineti, Poet of Genoa

Having only moved to Liguria a couple of years ago, I have also only recently become aware of the great Ligurian artists, so many of whom come from Genoa, the most underrated city in all of Italy.  These include the violinist Niccolò Paganini, the Nobel Prize winning poet Eugenio Montale […]

Big Books

I just finished reading Balzac’s Lost Illusions, a classic weighing in at a relatively modest 682 pages.  I don’t remember when I started it, though at best guess it was sometime around April or May.  That’s a good 5 plus months, though I must subtract from those the six weeks […]