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3 unusual facts about Invisible Cities


Colleen Corradi Brannigan

Colleen Corradi Brannigan is an Irish-Italian artist whose work is closely connected to Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities.

Invisible Cities

The Travels of Marco Polo, Polo's travel diary depicting his purported journey across Asia and in Yuan Dynasty (Mongol Empire) China, written in the 13th century, shares with Invisible Cities the brief, often fantastic accounts of the cities Polo claimed to have visited, accompanied by descriptions of the city's inhabitants, notable imports and exports, and whatever interesting tales Polo had heard about the region.

The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo.



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Quink Vocal Ensemble

Robert Heppener, Daan Manneke, Ton de Leeuw, Huub Kerstens: Invisible Cities - modern compositions by Dutch composers.