Calasso, Roberto: - Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan.
He was the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni..
Calasso also wrote the novel The Impure Fool and eight Books of essays, the first three of which have been published in English: The Art of the Publisher , The Forty-Nine Steps , Literature and the Gods , The Madness That Comes from the Nymphs , One Hundred Letters to an Unknown Reader , The Hieroglyphs of Sir Thomas Browne , The Rule of the Good Neighbor; or, How to Find an Order for Your Books , and American Allucinations . , Tiepolo Pink , La Folie Baudelaire , Ardor , The Celestial Hunter , The Unnamable Present , The Book of All Books, and The Tablet of Destinies .
Begun in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch , his landmark series now comprises The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony , Ka , K.
Calasso, Roberto: - Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan