Speaking to Clio

Biographies & Memoirs

Savinio, Alberto

Historical

Marlboro Press

Speaking to Clio&nbsp;is the journal of brief trips&nbsp;Savinio&nbsp;took in 1939 to the Abruzzi highlands and the Etruscan burial places at Cerveteri and Tarquinia.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Operatic Lives

Writing under the pen name Alberto Savinio, Andrea de Chirico (brother of painter Giorgio) penned fourteen short portraits of such luminaries as the painter Arnold Böcklin, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, Verdi, Stradivarius, Nostradamus, Paracelsus, Jules Verne, the bullfighter Bienvenido, Isadora Duncan, and Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio. In these biographies, Savinio's complex tone is at times warm and cordial -and, at other times, ironic to the point of malignancy.

Humor & Entertainment

Relates the childhood adventures of Nivasio Dolcemare, a boy growing up in Athens at the turn of the century, a time when the aristocracy was clinging to a vanishing lifestyle

The Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare (Eridano's Library, 3)

Marsilio Pub

Lives of the Gods

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Paj Pubn

Painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, and composer, Alberto Savinio was one of the most gifted and singular Italian writers of the twentieth century. Italian critics rank him alongside Pirandello, Calvino and Sciascia, but he is hardly known to American readers. He was the younger brother of Giorgio De Chirico, and Andre Breton said that the whole Modernist enterprise might be found in the work of these two brothers. Savinio composed five operas and more than forty books. A friend of Apollinaire, figures on the scene during Savinio’s artistic and literary career included Picasso, Cocteau, Max Jacob and Fernand Leger. As the translator says, his writing, like his panting, moves easily from the everyday to the fantastic. Attempts to define it as surrealist’ are too limiting. It is free in spirit, profoundly intelligent, and beautifully controlled in style.” The stories collected in Signor Dido are his last works, one story being sent to its publisher only four days before the author’s death. And while this final collection was completed in 1952, it was not published in Italian until 1978. Composed with an extreme economy of means, they are the summing up of a rich and complex life.... The stories contain haunting premonitions and at times piercing solitude, but they are all graced with Savinio’s high comic sense, his fine self-humor, and that stylistic irony which, as he once said, is both a mask for modesty and a subtle way of insinuating oneself into the secret of things.’”

Signor Dido: Stories

Literary

Counterpoint

The House Of Spirits

World Literature

Strange Ports Press

La Boîte à musique

FAYARD

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