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  • Zibaldone amasses the unprecedented brilliance of Giacomo Leopardi into one groundbreaking, 2,500-page text. Widely regarded as Italy’s finest modern lyric poet, Leopardi spent years cultivating and refining his radical and incisive analyses of religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, translation, the natural sciences, literature, poetry, and love in his Zibaldone.
  • The three rules of IAWA: Read One Another, Write or Be Written, and Buy Our Books. The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents writers Jonathan Galassi and Jane Tylus on Saturday, January 12, 2013, at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street in New York City’s West Village, (212-989-9319); www.corneliastreetcafe.com. The reading takes place from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. and kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes after which the featured writers take the stage.
  • Radio3 Roma brings its popular "Libri come" program to NYC. Jonathan Galassi presents his new translation of Leopardi's "Canti" and Stefan Merrill Block and Benedetta Tobagi discuss memory, history, and literary style at the Italian Cultural Institute