Quote of the day
I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
Roberto Calasso
Born: May 30, 1941
Died: July 28, 2021 (aged 80)
Bio: Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Italian, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German. Latin and Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He was called 'a literary institution of one'.
Known for:
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1988)
- Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (1998)
- The Art of the Publisher (2015)
- The ruin of Kasch (1994)
- Literature and the gods (2001)








