Condini, Ned

Ned Condini, born in Turin in 1940, went to Jesuit schools, studied Latin and Greek, and began writing at the age of 16. At the University of Turin, he embarked on a translation into Italian of The History of English Literature, a project ultimately published by Giulio Einaudi Editore as a 1458- page encyclopedia, Storia della letteratura inglese (1966). While working for the Turin firm, a total of twenty years, Condini majored in English and American literature, obtained his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and wrote his own poetry, short stories and novels. Moving to A...