Eggs,
Earth
And Space
Vittorio De Cosmo
Translated From The Italian By Marino D’Orazio
about the author
Vittorio De Cosmo
Vittorio De Cosmo was born in 1946 in Sepino, a beautiful hilltop town in the Molise region of Italy. He received a degree in Physics from the University of Florence in 1972 and has had a long-distinguished career as a university professor, researcher, and lecturer in various countries especially in the field of astrophysics. Before his recent retirement he worked for many years at the Italian Space Agency (ASI) where, among other duties, he was Head of the Earth Observation Section, and the Italian delegate to a number of commissions of the European Space Agency. He has authored numerous scientific papers and has participated in and chaired a number of national and international conferences in his field. This book is part of his continuing effort to instill in young people – especially middle and high school students – respect for the environment, and in particular a better understanding of the dangers our planet faces from climate change and global warming. His other current passions are his volunteer work for Lions Clubs International, trekking, music, and writing “climatic” fables for children. For the last thirty-five years he has lived in Rome with his wife Diana.
about the translator
Marino D'Orazio
Marino D’Orazio (a close lifelong friend of the author) was also born in Sepino, Italy and emigrated with his family to the US at the age of eleven. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center; has been a college professor of both English and Italian, and has translated fiction and nonfiction books from the Italian. He has also had a long career as an attorney, from which he now deems himself ‘semi-retired’. He has three grown children, six grandchildren, and lives with his wife in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Eggs,
Earth
And Space
Popular science or earth science description of planet earth, its various systems and their functions, their current status, dangers, including global warming, climate change, pollution, sea level rise etc. The book includes introductory framed story about young student stowaways on the International Space Station which through their questions, precede and introduce each scientific chapter.
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The House on the Fondaco Plain
At the beginning of the 1970s, Teresa Licciardi, a young widow, shutters her ancestral house and leaves her small town in Sicily, with her sons, for a new life in America. Her departure is the culmination of this beautiful novel, in which the story of a family across generations and continents becomes a hymn to the memory of lost time
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Antonfrancesco Grazzini («Il Lasca»), Two Plays
Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more popular than even Machiavelli. The Friar is a farce in three acts which satirizes, in the manner of Boccaccio, lustful men of the cloth and their willing female victims. The Bawd subverts stock classical comedy characters and situations while placing them in contemporary Florence. The result is the usual mayhem involving gullible fools, lustful young people, corrupt scheming servants, and a bit of black magic. The rise and subsequent popularity of the commedia dell’arte owes much to the likes of Il Lasca.