Elio Baldi is Assistant Professor in Romance languages and cultures at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Cecilia Schwartz is Professor of Italian at Stockholm University, Sweden.

• Contents, List of Contributors, Introduction – Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz, Part I, 1. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities in Brazil: A Bridge Between Literature and Other Fields (Andréia Guerini), 2. Invisible Cities in France: The Values of the Six Memos in the French Translation and Retranslation (Sandra Garbarino), 3. Calvino’s Invisible Cities in the Netherlands and Flanders: (In)visibilities in Translation and Reception (Elio Baldi and Linda Pennings), 4. Strategic Occidentalism in Mexico: Comparing Two Translations of Invisible Cities in the Context of the Generación de Medio siglo (Rodrigo Jardón Herrera and Sabina Longhitano), 5. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities in Romania. A Pulviscular Presence (Corina Badelita), Part II, 6. Invisible Cities in Scandinavia — Editorial Journeys, Migrant Signs, and Paratextual Loops (Hanne Jansen and Cecilia Schwartz), 7. Un-Published Cities in the USSR. The Soviet Critical Reception of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1973-1991) (Ilaria Sicari), 8. Italo Calvino and Invisible Cities in China: A Narrative Wonder (Nicoletta Pesaro), 9. Invisible Cities in Poland. A Journey Through Languages and Memory” (Anita Kłos), Part III, 10. Invisible Cities in Japan – Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature (Filippo Cervelli and Claudia Dellacasa), 11. Calvino Travels to the East: Invisible Cities, Open Architecture, and Orientalism (Ecem Sarıçayır), 12. Invisible Cities: a Performative Adaptation (Irene Fiordilino), 13. A Rhizomatic Acrostic in Africa through Calvino’s Invisible Cities (Valentina Acava), 14. A Calvinian Architecture: An Italian-Born Artist Living in Australia (Domenico De Clario), Epilogue - An Italian perspective on the travels of Le città invisibili in the world (Andrea Palermitano), Index

"Calvino's Invisible Cities is a unique masterpiece of literature that continues to impress and influence readers, scholars, critics, artists, and architects around the world... the translated novel [is] like a meteor crashed into foreign ecosystems which, however, relentlessly attempt to absorb it in their literary and cultural systems."- Katja Liimatta, University of Iowa, Annali d’italianistica