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The Rosagarda's Cowsheds

Translated into English by Carla Calimani

Written in Italian by Giorgio Orelli

Also in: Italian, Jamaican Patois, German, French, Romanian
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Cowsheds of stone, or of wood on stone foundations, or all in wood, darkened, almost black at times; in groups like embryonic villages, or isolated, distracted almost, which the errant eye is happy to rediscover. Some have a waterless fountain next to them, from

Pelican, an American Novel

Translated into English by Carla Calimani

Written in French by Philippe Rahmy

Also in: French, Italian
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We are what we believe and we believe what we are told. The tragedy of all this is that the stories we identify with were never written by anyone, they were passed down from one generation to another since the dawn of time. We are insignificant in the vastness

Rüsümada

Translated into English by Carla Calimani

Written in Italian by Giorgio Orelli

Also in: Italian, French
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Both of us, my father and I, tried the rüsümada, where egg yolk is beaten with sugar as if in a zabaglione, but with wine instead of marsala. A sip was enough to trigger a wave of nausea. My father had happily accepted a coffee with grappa, I didn’t drink coffee and