A Volontà: Blog

1. Milan is built upon joy, and tears/Milano è fondata sulla gioia e sulle lacrime

   March 23, 2020
   This is a drawing of an architectural ornament on a building in Gorla, Milan, near the site of an accidental WWII bombing that killed many of Italian schoolchildren. The ornament looks like streaming tears, or a fleet of bombers racing through the sky, or an unknown airborne menace, on a…

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2. Grazia Deledda: A Nobel Prize and a pet crow

   March 17, 2020
   In 1926, Grazia Deledda was both the second woman and second Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She also had a pet crow named Checcha. With that magical intuition that crows are believed to have, Checcha would apparently fly away when too many people descended on Deledda’s house…

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3. “I Kroi” - the fountains of Calabria

   March 12, 2020
   For our next Zuppa Inglese project, we are taking on the short story “Il Cinghialetto” by Grazia Deledda: I am adapting the Italian text into English, and Erik is creating drawings that highlight moments of drama in the story. In “Il Cinghialetto,” a little boy in Sardegna finds a lost…

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