l’autunno autumn The change of the seasons (il cambio delle stagioni) doesn’t bring dramatic changes in California, where I live. But in Italy every stagione – la primavera (spring), l’estate (summer), l’autunno (autumn), and l’inverno (winter) — has a different feel and focus. L’autunno is my favorite. The names of the months of autumn date back to ancient Rome — and remind us that our calendar (calendario) was one of the enduring gifts of Julius Caesar. Before his time the Roman calendar, devised by Rome’s founder Romulus some 2700 years ago, had only ten months. January and February, when the land lay fallow,  didn’t exist. The new year began in…