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Invisible Cities (and in particular the chapters about Isidora, Armilla, and Adelma) is the basis for an opera by composer Christopher Cerrone, first produced by The Industry in October 2013 as an experimental production at Union Station in Los Angeles.
Nov 3, 1972 · Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan of wondrous and beautiful cities, cities of passion and desire, cities of memory, cities of light and the sky, trading cities, cities of signs, hidden cities, cities of the dead.
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May 3, 1978 · Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities.
- Italo Calvino
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice.
- Italo Calvino
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Invisible Cities, novel by Italo Calvino, published in 1972 in Italian as Le città invisibili. It consists of a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in which the former describes a series of wondrous, surreal cities in the khan’s domain.
Aug 12, 2013 · Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino. HarperCollins, Aug 12, 2013 - Fiction - 176 pages. Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across...
Dec 14, 2010 · In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually...
Dec 16, 2009 · There are a countless number of cities but the most mysterious are those that we build in our imagination. Marco Polo arrives and he tells Kublai Khan about ghostly cities he visited during his journeys…
