“Yesterday you had a mother on earth: today you have an angel somewhere else. Everything that is good outlasts, growing in strength, life on earth. Consequently, even your mother’s love. She loves you more than ever now.” Edmondo De Amicis Camminando, camminando Una volta, mentre eravamo sedute sotto il noce in Abruzzo, mia madre…Read more Camminando, camminando…Matilda Colarossi
Prose
Pirandello: Colloqui coi personaggi/ Dialogues with the characters
Da Colloqui coi personaggi Luigi Pirandello Ora che tu sei morta, io non dico che non sei più viva per me; tu sei viva, viva com’eri, con la stessa realtà che per tanti anni t’ho data da lontano, pensandoti, senza vedere il tuo corpo, e viva sempre sarai finché io sarò vivo; ma…Read more Pirandello: Colloqui coi personaggi/ Dialogues with the characters
Gramsci & Grimm’s fairy tales: The wolf and the seven little goats. From translation to translation to translation.
In 1932, Gramsci wrote to his sister: “I translated from the German, for practice, a series of folk stories that were just like the ones we liked so much when we were children.” I really believe folk stories are very much the same in every part of the world: so why do peoples think they're…Read more Gramsci & Grimm’s fairy tales: The wolf and the seven little goats. From translation to translation to translation.
Matilda Colarossi: Grasses/ Erbacce
GrassesAfter immigrating to Canada, my father returned to Italy almost every summer for over twenty years.The land where his family home rises is surrounded by trees; but mostly, it is infested with grasses, some so wild and thick it takes an axe to fell their short but hardy lives. My father’s whipper snipper would echo…Read more Matilda Colarossi: Grasses/ Erbacce
parallel texts: words reflected 