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Tarot, as interpreted by the artist Aldo Urbano, in the exhibition ‘La torre invertida’ (‘The reversed tower’) at Madrid’s Casa Encendida cultural center.

An exhibition and several books explore the links between the mysterious deck of cards created in the Italian Renaissance with history, art and creativity

The writer Italo Calvino, photographed in Rome in 1984.

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Italo Calvino, the writer who shrank the size of hell

Andrea Rizzi|Oct 14, 2023 - 15:21 CEST

The celebration of the author’s centenary reveals the enormous literary and intellectual stature of a man who always knew how to say ‘no’ when it came to the big red lines

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Italo Calvino

From the Fool to the World: The cultural about-face of tarot, beyond psychics and fortune-telling

Italo Calvino, the writer who shrank the size of hell

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