Italy’s Blackest Friday
Black Friday is witnessing record high sales as it expands from a special day to a special week, but small and medium-sized businesses are struggling to keep up with tech giants. Can Gen Zers save them?
How The Italian Fashion Industry Withstands The Covid-19 Crisis
How does the Italian fashion industry take action to preserve and adapt the country’s fragile supply chain against another Covid-19 blow?
Translating Andrea Camilleri Into English
Camilleri writes in a peculiar mixture of Italianized Sicilian and Sicilianized Italian. How do translators handle the constant switching of linguistic codes?
On Translating Giovanni Meli’s Poetry
The works of Giovanni Meli illustrate some of the problems translators meet when they are asked to translate from one language into another.
A Pirandellian Mental Lapse: Don Quijote Or Don Chisciotti?
Great courage, an unshakable faith in the codes of chivalry, madness, are the traits that one normally associated with Don Quijote. However, when Pirandello refers to specific events in the life of the Knight, a problem arises.
The Struggle Of Independent Bookstores
The number of Italian independent bookstores has been — not too slowly — decreasing over the past decade.
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