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I first met Dacia Maraini on a chilly night in New York City-March 13, 2014, to be exact.I know the date because Dacia inscribed it in the copy of Chiara di Assisi: Elogio della disobbedienza that she kindly gave me as we were leaving NYU's Casa Italiana following my interview with her about this bracing new book.It was a book that had gotten under my skin as I was reading it in preparation for our meeting.So too does Clare of Assisi herself get under the skin of the novelist or "Cara scrittrice," the writer who is very much a character in her own book and who finds herself increasingly caught up in the Middle Ages despite her best intentions.I had the opposite experience, in some ways.Dacia lured me out of my academic fixation on the Middle Ages and into the pre sent, enabling me to work on a con temporary text for a change.How refreshing to be in contact with the author whose book you are translating and, in Dacia's case, some one who is always responsive to your every question, eager to hear your own thoughts; someone for whom a book is, truly, never closed.The novelist as vulnerable, compassionate, and, in a less ethical register, curious about the world around her, its past and its pos si ble futures, and especially its varied and always unsettling pre sent.This is the posture that Dacia occupies
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