NMLP P-012332 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Difficult Loves

Italo Calvino · Secker & Warburg (UK) / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (US) · 1983 (UK) / 1984 (US)

The US 1984 Harcourt volume is NOT the first English appearance of this material. The UK Secker and Warburg edition (London, 1983) precedes it, and three of the stories were first translated for that 1983 British edition before the fuller American selection of 1984. The two editions differ in contents, so neither is a straightforward reprint of the other.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012332 for "Difficult Loves" by Italo Calvino (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012332, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).