Aldo Buzzi was an author

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 and architect

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Born in Como

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, Italy

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, Buzzi graduated from Milan School of Architecture

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 in 1938. Though primarily an author of travel and gastronomy

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 books, he also worked as an architect; as assistant director, scene writer, and screen writer for various film production companies in the former Yugoslavia

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, and in Rome

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, Italy, and France

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. He edited the following films: La Kermesse heroica, Ridolini e la collana della suocera e Ridolini esploratore, and Sette anni di guai, all produced by Editoriale Domus, 1945.

Published works

• Taccuino dell'Auto-Regista (1944)
• Quando la pantera rugge (1972)
• Piccolo diario americano, illustrated by Saul Steinberg
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   (1974)
• L'uovo alla kok: ricette, curiosita (1979)
• Viaggio in Terra de mosche e altri viaggi (1994); translated into English by Ann Goldstein and published as Journey to the Land of the Flies (1996)
• Cechov e Sondrio (1991)
• A Weakness for Almost Everything (1999); translated by Ann Goldstein
• The Perfect Egg and Other Secrets (2005); translated by Guido Waldman, illustrated by Saul Steinberg
• Parliamo d'altro (2006)