Contents
Gardens and Graveyards: Giorgio Bassani
After the Struggle: Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Illusionist: Benito Mussolini
The Disenchantment of Translation
Still Stirring: Samuel Beckett
Genius of Bad News: Thomas Bernhard
Let Sleeping Beauties Lie: Elfriede Jelinek
A Polished Pessimism: Emil Cioran
True Scandal: Niccolò Machiavelli
Mad at the Medici: Lorenzo de’ Medici
Tales Told by a Computer: Hypertext
A Matter of Love and Hate: World Cup Football
Hero Betrayed: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Siege of the Serenissima: 1848
The Superman’s Virgins: Gabriele D’Annunzio
A Pagan in Italy: Lawrence and Italy