Poetry

Harvard canto-by-canto commentary of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata Julianne VanWagenen CANTO X Abstract (click here to read the full essay): Canto 10 of Jerusalem Delivered is a fruitful place to examine Tasso’s sometimes tense and always complex...

Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza KALEIDOSCOPIC DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Translating John Ashbery through Spanish and Latin American Poetry 1 While working on the galley proofs of my translation of John Ashbery’s Where Shall I Wander, I asked the poet about an idiom...

by Antonio Prete Bollati Boringhieri, 131 pp., € 16.00 JULIANNE VAN WAGENEN Antonio Prete, professor of comparative literature at the University of Siena, begins his book: “To translate is to transmute one language into another language. One text into...

di Francesco Ferretti Pacini, 393 pp., 25 € DALILA COLUCCI - Era la notte : Spunti (mancati) per la decifrazione di un tema “Era la notte, e ‘l suo stellato velo /chiaro spiegava e senza nube alcuna...”: le ripetute evocazioni di paesaggi notturni – siano...