Carlo Ginzburg’s mother | Half Man Half Biscuit | Memory test | Andy Burnham | Roman emperors
It is lovely to see an appreciation in the Guardian of the historian Carlo Ginzburg, and you rightly alluded to the murder of his father, Leone, by the fascist regime (Editorial, 22 June). It was disappointing that you did not find space to mention his mother, Natalia, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Italian or any language. It was of course she who raised their children, first in internal exile in Abruzzo and later, following their father’s death, in Rome.
Liz Potter
Birmingham
• Mick Balfour is right to bring up the Half Man Half Biscuit song All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit (Letters, 18 June), but he’s attributed it to the wrong LP. It was of course on their 1987 album Back Again in the DHSS, not their 1985 debut Back in the DHSS. An important distinction.
Peter Collins
London