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Luigi Fontanella
Luigi Augusto Fontanella (born 1943 Salerno, Italy) is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist. Life He was a student of Giacomo Debenedetti and after he graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome, he obtained a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, (where from 1976 to 1978, he held the position of Fulbright Fellow), and at Wellesley College. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Italian Language and Literature at Stony Brook University. He is the Founder and President of IPA (Italian Poetry in America), as well as the Senior Editor, for the publishing house Olschki, of ''Gradiva'': An International Journal of Poetry, and Chief Editor of the publishing house of Gradiva Publications, which has recently received the National Prize for the Translation from the Ministry of Culture and the Catullo Prize. He chairs the International Poetry Prize "Gradiva", founded in 2012. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenos Books
Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation. Titles published Poetry *'' Sevastopol: On Photographs of War'', by William Allen. *'' Naked as Water'', by Mario Azzopardi, translated from Maltese, and with an Introduction & Afterword by Grazio Falzon. *''The Hunts'', by Amelia Biagioni, translated from Spanish by Renata Treitel. *'' Addictive Aversions'', by Alfredo de Palchi, translated from Italian by Sonia Raiziss, ''et al.'' *'' Anonymous Constellation'', by Alfredo de Palchi, translated from Italian by Sonia Raiziss. *'' The Scorpion’s Dark Dance'', by Alfredo de Palchi, translated from Italian by Sonia Raiziss. *'' Angels of Youth'', by Luigi Fontanella, translated from Italian by Carol Lettieri & Irena Marchegiani Jones. *'' The Wolf at the Door: A Poetic Cycle'', by Bogomil Gjuzel, tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellesley College Faculty
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Princeton University Faculty
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Columbia University Faculty
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Harvard Graduate School Of Arts And Sciences Alumni
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious and highly ranked universities in the world. The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses: the Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.9 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Endowment inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapienza University Of Rome Alumni
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. It is one of the largest European universities by enrollments and one of the oldest in history, founded in 1303. The university is one of the most prestigious Italian universities in the world, commonly ranking first in national rankings and in Southern Europe. In 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 it ranked first in the world for classics and ancient history. Most of the Italian ruling class studied at the Sapienza. The Sapienza has educated numerous notable alumni, including many Nobel laureates, Presidents of the European Parliament and European Commissioners, heads of several nations, notable religious figures, scientists and astronauts. In September 2018, it was included in the top 100 of the QS World University Rankings Graduate Emplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Male Poets
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Giovanni Raboni
Giovanni Raboni (22 January 1932 – 16 September 2004) was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic. Biography Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva. In October 1942, after the first bombings of Milan, the family moved to Sant'Ambrogio Olona, near Varese, where Raboni concluded his primary and intermediate school. His father's love for French and Russian classics made him read and appreciate Proust, Dickens, Dostoevskij and when his cousin Giandomenico Guarino, knowledgeable about contemporary literature and poetry, found shelter in Sant'Ambrogio too after 8 September 1943 armistice, Raboni met the works by Piovene, Buzzati, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Cardarelli, and Montale about whom he said: ''I know I owe much to Montale, I realise this upon rereading him, even if I did not love him as much as Eliot and Sereni, but he affected me a lot... especially his expression of the limits, of the fact that we can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Of Youth
''Angels of Youth'', by Luigi Fontanella, is a book of poems written originally in Italian and based on his Italian volume ''Ceres''. Synopsis It is divided into four sections, Ceres, Stanzas for Emma, Ars Poetica, and Ballads. It includes "Stanzas for Emma" dedicated to the poet's daughter, and "Sequence for my Father" which reflects on his dead parent. Publication history ''Angels of Youth'' is a translation of '' Ceres'', Fontanella's ninth volume of poetry, originally published in Italian by Caramanica Editore in 1993. The Italian edition won The Orazio Caputo Prize and The Olindo de Gennaro Prize, and received over thirty reviews in prestigious literary journals in Europe and the United States. Devised with American readers in mind, the Xenos Books Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in transla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
