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Calvino

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Cal·vi·no  (kl-vn, käl-), Italo 1923-1985.
Italian writer of allegorical tales, such as The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount (1962), and science fiction, including Cosmicomics (1965).
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Noun1.Calvino - Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987)

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Luckily Italo Calvino has mapped out a resolution to the diagram dilemma.
Born in Milan in 1922, Giorgio Manganelli did not emerge into the literary world until the early '60s, when he joined Gruppo '63, the avant-garde literary movement whose best-known members included Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
From the short story "Theft in a Pastry Shop" by Italo Calvino (reprinted with permission)
 
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