Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott

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Book Details

Title

Le citta invisibili

Author

Italo Calvino

Award Year
ISBN
9788804668022

Honoree Information

Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott

Position

Associate Professor

Department

Classics

Occasion

On the occasion of Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor

Why Chosen

Le citta invisibili, which can briefly be described as a dialogue between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo on the cities of the Khan's empire, is a work that brings together imagination and the act of description in a way that continues to inspire me in how I look at the past, and which helps to me to reflect on my own position as a Roman archaeologist for how I engage with the world of the Roman empire in all its breadth and diversity.