Matilda Colarossi

Matilda Colarossi grew up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She attended the universities of Windsor and Toronto earning an Honours BA in Drama and Italian Literature. In 1983, she moved to Florence, Italy. In 2001 she attended the Protr@d Translation course in Florence under the direction of Magda Olivetti and spent the next 15 years translating mostly academic and commercial texts. In 2014 she started her blog, paralleltexts, and has since also been translating literature.

Books (in translation):

Discovering the stars, Ianieri Edizioni, Silvi Marina, Teramo, 2022

The Water War, Ianieri Edizioni, Silvi Marina, Teramo, 2022

Bessarion and music Concepts, theoretical sources and styles, Edizioni Fondazione Levi, Venice, 2021

Reflecting on Hornbostel-Sachs’s Versuch, edited by Cristina Ghirardini, Edizioni Fondazione Levi, Venice, 2020

Leonardo da Vinci, Fables and legends, by Leonardo da Vinci, MutatuM Publishing, London (2018) Interview: https://www.wordsandpics.org/2019/09/translation-mati-colarossi.html?m=1

Fiamma by Dana Neri, MutatuM Publishing, London (2018) Interview with the author: https://csidewriter.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/c-incontri-le-interviste-dana-neri/

Lettere ai maestri, by Daniele Rossi, Stabilimento Pol. Fiorentino, Florence (2017) Interview with the author: http://www.danielerossi.it/neweb/lettere_e_maestri.html

In movimento by Enrico Bianda, Stanza 251 (2013)

Forthcoming: Excluded by Luigi Pirandello, Noumena Press

Short stories, poems, and excerpts (in

translation):

Pirandello, Luigi, “Lucky to be a horse”, from Novelle per un anno: Asymptote Journal 2023
Deledda, Grazia. “Macchiette“, Versi dal 1887-1900: AALITRA, 2021
Ferreri, Silvia. La madre di Eva/ Eva’s mother, excerpt: Anomaly #32 2021
Lo Brano, Marta. “Poesie”, Mie insondabili tutte: AzonaL, 2020
Mujčić, Elvira. Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato/ On how to be a good immigrant, excerpt: Asymptote 2020
Tapparelli, Filippo. L’Inverno di Giona/ Giona’s winter, excerpt on NewBooksInItaly (Ministero degli Affari Esteri)
Deledda, Grazia. “On the mountain”, Versi dal 1887-1900: Asymptote, 2020.
Deledda, Grazia. “Ancient Musical legend“, Leggende Sarde: Finalist Gabo Prize, LunchTicket Org., 2019
De Luca, Erri. “Poesie”, solo andata: Asymptote Journal, 2019
Ferreri, Silvia. La madre di Eva/Eva’s mother, excerpt: Asymptote, October 2018
Zardi, Paolo. “Future perfect”, Il giorno che diventammo umani : Asymptote, January, 2018
Zardi, Paolo. XXI Secolo/21st mo ml century, excerpt: Lunch Ticket, Winter/Spring edition, 2018
Paolin, Demetrio. Conforme alla gloria/In conformance with glory, excerpt: Ilanot Review, July, 2017
De Luca, Erri. “Poesie”, solo andata: Sakura Review, July, 2017
Amato, Roberto: 48th Poetry International, May, 2017
Amato, Roberto: International Festival Rotterdam, May, 2017
Basso, Susanna. Sul tradurre/On translation, excerpt: Asymptote, April, 2017
Cinquegrani, Alessandro. Cacciatori di frodo/Poachers, excerpt: Asymptote, July, 2016
Amato, Roberto: Poetry International, May, 2016.
Zardi, Paolo. “L’ultima sigaretta”, Il giorno che diventammo umani: Lunch Ticket Org., March, 2016
Zardi, Paolo. “Six minutes”, Antropometria: Lunch Ticket Org., January, 2016.

Short stories (original Italian and English):

Snapshots: https://paralleltexts.blog/category/snapshots/
Partenze, racconti, Associazione Culturale Small Room (2016)
Stanza 251: http://stanza251.blogspot.com/search/label/Matilde%20Colarossi
Edizioni Mimosa, (weekly magazine)

A selection of articles and papers (translation/revision), interviews:

Commare, Giovanni, “The Italian Sonnet in the 20th century: Death and Resurrection”, (2022).
Pisani, Francesco, “The town of Collodi: the vernacular heritage”, (2022).
Ghetti, Noemi. “Between Russia and Italy, from Bogdanov to Gramsci, the cultural path towards revolution), (2021).
Further Addenda for the (2011) Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs classification
of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium and the (2017) Addenda to the
MIMO Hornbostel-Sachs Classification by the CIMCIM Working Group on
Classification.
Ghetti, Noemi. Kaspar Hauser: Musikdrama, (2020).
“Missing gems of world lit: Fuori fuoco by Chiara Carminati, A Fuse 8 Production (2020): http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2020/01/22/guest-post-what-were-missing-gems-of-world-kid-lit/
Venerucci, Francesco. “Scanderbeg”, (2019).
Documentary: Centro PEN della Sardegna – Documentario “un’odissea ‘e rimas nobas”, 2019.
Ghetti, Noemi. “Leonardo da Vinci: the figuration of invisible things”, (2019).
Words and pictures, Julie Sullivan interviews Mati Colarossi, The SCBWI British Isles Online Magazine (2019);
Los Angeles Review of Books, Matilda Colarossi interviews Lindsay Wong author of The woo-woo, China Channel (2019)
Ghetti, Noemi, “Gramsci in the blind prison of the heretics”, (2018). https://snuproject.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/gramsci-nel-cieco-carcere-degli-eretici-gramsci-in-the-blind-prison-of-the-heretics-by-noemi-ghetti/
Review: Cedi la strada agli alberi by Franco Arminio, L’Indice (2017);
Un posto di vacanza;
Intralingo (2017);
Farneti, Fausta, “Quadraturism in Pontremoli: clients and artists”, Università di Firenze, (2017).
Colarossi, Matilda. “Once upon a time in Mugello”, OKMugello Magazine (https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16999/ti-racconto-la-mezzadria-gli-anni-30-e-40-a-borgo – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16979/i-bambini-nel-mugello-degli-anni-30-un-racconto – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16989/le-ragazze-negli-anni-venti-in-mugello-vita-e-storie – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16991/mugello-le-avventure-di-un-veterinario-prima-e-dopo-la-guerra – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16986/il-mugello-sui-pedali-storia-di-una-normale-vita-avventurosa – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16983/barberino-tagliaferro-il-viaggio-e-la-vita-di-una-sposa )
Pasquini, Matteo, “Integrated mapping systems for buried architecture” Università di Firenze, (2012)
Lischi, Sandra, “In search of expanded cinema”, Cinema&Cie’ 2003