A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR

 

Roberto Calasso is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni in Milan and the author of many books. Ardor is the seventh part of a work in progress, following The Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, and La Folie Baudelaire.

 

Richard Dixon lives and works in Italy. His translations include The Prague Cemetery and Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco and he is one of the translators of FSG’s edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone.