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Author Archives: Alessandro Giacometto

Alessandro Giacometto is going into his third year at St John's College, where he reads History and French. He is about to embark on his year abroad in France, beginning in Biarritz and then moving on to Paris. When not in Oxford, he lives in Wokingham, near Reading.

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“This piece is an expression of my distaste for Coleridge’s ‘motiveless malignity’. It is a rebellion against the usual ideas thrown at English students when…

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January — a month that often has been disregarded as boring, was something that once offered me solace. When I was younger, the thought of…

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