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The Universality of Literature: Giacomo Prampolini, Translator and Mediator
Can one person read the world? Can one person organize world literature? Giacomo Prampolini was the man who tried. This Italian polyglot and cultural mediator shaped world literature through translation and canon formation. His ambition was to read all the literatures of the world in their original languages. Minority languages were central to this vision: he described them as “a tree in springtime” and studied them with particular care.

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