Margherita Guidacci

This is one of the first poems ever posted on my blog (when I had no idea where this blog was headed, or where my love of Italian literature would lead me, or that I would meet so many wonderful authors and poets on this journey) and it is still one of my favourites. #Ecopoetry…Read more Margherita Guidacci

Immortality/Immortalità, a poem by Clare Harner

Immortality Clare Harner Do not stand By my grave, and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep— I am the thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glints in snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. As you awake with…Read more Immortality/Immortalità, a poem by Clare Harner

Trilussa: La Lucciola/ The Firefly

So much talk about the importance of translators in the world of literature today. . . Which are we the Moon or the Firefly? LA LUCCIOLA Trilussa La Luna piena minchionò la Lucciola: ― Sarà l’effetto de l’economia, ma quel lume che porti è deboluccio… ― Sì, ― disse quella ― ma la…Read more Trilussa: La Lucciola/ The Firefly

Liberation Day, #25aprile: Ungaretti, Pertini, Spagnolli, Lussu, Biagi, Sciascia, Fallaci, Calamandrei, Ginzburg, Fenoglio, Bobbio, Bocca.

“Fascism is not an opinion: it’s a crime.”- Sandro Pertini On April 25, 1945, the Allied troops liberated Italy from the Nazi occupation and fascism. After September 1943, partisan Resistance groups were active throughout northern and much of central Italy. They were most active in summer in the hills and mountains, but also in many…Read more Liberation Day, #25aprile: Ungaretti, Pertini, Spagnolli, Lussu, Biagi, Sciascia, Fallaci, Calamandrei, Ginzburg, Fenoglio, Bobbio, Bocca.