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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Italo Calvino
Born: October 15, 1923
Died: September 19, 1985 (aged 61)
Bio: Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels.
Known for:
- Invisible Cities (1972)
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (1979)
- The Baron in the Trees (1957)
- Cosmicomics (1965)
- The Nonexistent Knight (1959)
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