Roberto Calasso - Ardor

world, worlds; see also creation; world order

world order ( Weltordnung, ṛta )

Xenophon

ya evaṃ veda (“he who knows thus”)

Yahweh

yaj- (“to sacrifice”)

yajamāna (“sacrificer”); see also sacrificer

yajña (“sacrifice”); see also ritual, liturgy, ceremony

Yājñavalkya

Yajurveda; see also hymns

yajus (“ritual formula,” mantra of the Yajur Veda); see also Yajurveda

Yama; see also death; mṛtyu ; Mṛtyu

year

yielding ( tyāga )

yoga (“yoke,” “junction”); see also yoking

yoking; see also yoga

yūpa (“post”); see also sacrificial post

Zarathustra

Zen

Zeus

Zhou

Zuo zhuan

Zürau

Frontispiece © National Museum of India, New Delhi, India/The Bridgeman Art Library/Archivi Alinari. Illustrations here, here, and here © Mehrangarh Museum Trust; photographs courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Illustration here © 2010 Digital Image Museum Associates/LACMA/Art Resource NY/Scala, Florence. Illustration here © 2010 Foto Scala, Florence. Illustration here © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (OL000100/1).

I. The Ruin of Kasch

II. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

III. Ka

IV. K.

V. Tiepolo Pink

VI. La Folie Baudelaire

The Forty-nine Steps

Literature and the Gods

Roberto Calasso is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni in Milan and the author of many books. Ardor is the seventh part of a work in progress, following The Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink , and La Folie Baudelaire .

Richard Dixon lives and works in Italy. His translations include The Prague Cemetery and Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco and he is one of the translators of FSG’s edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone .