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An Interview with John Irving Clarke

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SILVIA PIO talks to the British poet: Question: John I. Clarke, writer, poet, retired teacher. What else? Reading is intrinsic to all of the above. It is not possible to write poetry and not read what others have written and…

Why Margutte?

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LORENZO BARBERIS. (original article) SILVIA PIO (english abstract) Abstract Why “Margutte”? Margutte is a character from the Renaissance chivalric poem “Morgante” by Luigi Pulci. He is a giant, squire to Morgante, another giant, who is in turn squire to the…