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    Alfabestiario
    Alfabestiario
    Alfabestiario
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    Alfabestiario

    By Antonello Borra

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    Animals have always understood that mankind is not fully at home in the world. Bestiaries, hoping to teach, send out warnings. This one, of course, aims at doing the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFomite
    Release dateApr 6, 2020
    ISBN9781947917521
    Alfabestiario

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      Alfabestiario - Antonello Borra

      Alfabestiario

      Alfabestiario

      Antonello Borra

      Translated by

      Blossom S. Kirschenbaum

      Illustrated by

      Delia Robinson

      Fomite

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Untitled

      L’albatro

      The Albatross

      Untitled

      L’anguilla

      The Eel

      Untitled

      L’aquila

      The Eagle

      Untitled

      La balena

      The Whale

      Untitled

      Il cane

      The Dog

      Untitled

      Il caprone

      The Billy-Goat

      Untitled

      La coccinella

      The Ladybug

      Untitled

      Il coniglio

      The Rabbit

      Untitled

      Il coccodrillo

      The Crocodile

      Untitled

      Il dodo

      The Dodo

      Untitled

      L’elefante

      The Elephant

      Untitled

      La faina

      The Weasel

      Untitled

      La folaga

      The Moorhen

      Untitled

      Il gallo

      The Cock

      Untitled

      Il gatto

      The Cat

      Untitled

      L’husky

      The Husky

      Untitled

      L’ippopotamo

      The Hippopotamus

      Untitled

      Lo jacaré

      The Jacaré

      Untitled

      Il kiwi

      The Kiwi

      Untitled

      La lepre

      The Hare

      Untitled

      Il lupo

      The Wolf

      Untitled

      Il maiale

      The Pig

      Untitled

      Il nibbio

      The Kite

      Untitled

      L’ornitorinco

      The Platypus

      Untitled

      La pantera

      The Panther

      Untitled

      La quaglia

      The Quail

      Untitled

      Il quetzal

      The Quetzal

      Untitled

      Il rospo

      The Toad

      Untitled

      Lo scarafaggio

      The Cockroach

      Untitled

      Il serpente

      The Serpent

      Untitled

      Il tacchino

      The Turkey

      Untitled

      La tartaruga

      The Tortoise

      Untitled

      Il topo

      The Rat

      Untitled

      Il toro

      The Bull

      Untitled

      L’upupa

      The Hoopoe

      Untitled

      La volpe

      The Fox

      Untitled

      Il wapiti

      The Wapiti

      Untitled

      Lo xenópodo

      The Xenopous

      Untitled

      Lo yak

      The Yak

      Untitled

      La zanzara

      The Mosquito

      About the Author

      About the Translator

      About the Artist

      Poems Copyright © 2013 by Antonello Borra

      Translations Copyright © 2013 Estate of Blossom S. Kirschenbaum

      Art Copyright © 2013 by Delia Robinson

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations used in reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Cover Art - Runner Ducks Walk Through a Mystery - Delia Robinson

      Author Photo - Clara Hösle

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      For Adriana (la Schatza)

      and

      For Blossom (in memoriam)

      Acknowledgments

      These creatures closely resemble the ones gathered in Alfabestiario (Lietocolle: 2009), but are not exactly the same. Some new creatures joined in, others changed over the course of time. All of them celebrate the life and mourn the passing of Blossom S. Kirschenbaum, who had given them

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