Definition of Italo calvino

1. Noun. Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987).

Exact synonyms: Calvino
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Italo Calvino

Italianization
Italianizations
Italianize
Italianized
Italianizes
Italianizing
Italians
Italic
Italic language
Italicism
Italicisms
Italiote
Italiotes
Italish
Italo-
Italo Calvino
Italo disco
Italophile
Italophiles
Italophones
Italy
Itanagar
Itelmen
Ithaca
Ithacan
Ithacans
Ithaka
Ithaki
Ithunn
Ito's nevus

Literary usage of Italo calvino

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... Italian novelist italo calvino has ingeniously portrayed a series of fantastic cities that consist merely of scraps, memories, or representations. ..."

2. The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligenceby Emile H. L. Aarts, Stefano Marzano by Emile H. L. Aarts, Stefano Marzano (2003)
"italo calvino People's everyday lives are characterized by their activities - shopping, relaxing, learning, talking and so on. As simple as these activities ..."

3. Tuscany and Umbria by Emma Jones (2005)
"... Penelope Fitzgerald Italian Folktales, italo calvino Romola, George Eliot A Room with a View, EM Forster A Tuscan Childhood, Kinta Beevor Valperga, ..."

4. The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson (2001)
"italo calvino (in his 1969 lecture Cybernetics and Ghosts): It will be the shock that occurs only if the writing machine is surrounded by the hidden ghosts ..."

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