Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Italian: Lezioni americane.
Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio) is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, though Calvino died before delivering them.
[1] The "memos" are lectures on certain literary qualities whose virtues Calvino wished to recommend to the then-approaching millennium.
He intended to devote one lecture to each of six qualities: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency.
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