The Book of All Books - Roberto Calasso

Calasso, Roberto: - Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan. Begun in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch , his landmark series now comprises The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony , Ka , K. , Tiepolo Pink , La Folie Baudelaire , Ardor , The Celestial Hunter , The Unnamable Present , The Book of All Books, and The Tablet of Destinies . Calasso also wrote the novel The Impure Fool and eight books of essays, the first three of which have been published in English: The Art of the Publisher , The Forty-Nine Steps , Literature and the Gods , The Madness That Comes from the Nymphs , One Hundred Letters to an Unknown Reader , The Hieroglyphs of Sir Thomas Browne , The Rule of the Good Neighbor; or, How to Find an Order for Your Books , and American Allucinations . He was the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni.