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Translation copyright © 2014 by Richard Dixon

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Originally published in Italian in 2010 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as L’ardore
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Calasso, Roberto, author.

    [Ardore. English]

    Ardor / Roberto Calasso; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.

        pages    cm

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-374-18231-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4299-5580-5 (ebook)

    1.  Vedas—Criticism, interpretation, etc.   I.  Dixon, Richard, translator.   II.  Title.

BL1112 .26 C3513 2014

294.5'921046—dc23

2013044345

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