Martin McLaughlin
    
		
			  Martin McLaughlin (1950-2025) was the Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford from 2001 to 2017 and an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was the author of Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance and Italo Calvino . He translated Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (Princeton), Calvino's Why Read the Classics? and Leon Battista Alberti's Biographical and Autobiographical Writings .
			  Martin McLaughlin (1950-2025) was the Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford from 2001 to 2017 and an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was the author of Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance and Italo Calvino . He translated Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (Princeton), Calvino's Why Read the Classics? and Leon Battista Alberti's Biographical and Autobiographical Writings . See less
		   
	 
	
	
	
	
	
		
		
		
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Turtle Island: A Journey to the Britain's Oddest Colony 
					
					
					 Unusual Exotic Island
					
				This book has been translated expertly, and lists many funny and interesting facts about the author's adventures on Ascension Island, UK. Written is an engaging first person format, the account is ... Read More