Gaetano Cipolla is a retired professor of

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and Chairman of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at St. John's University in

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. He was born and raised in

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Province,

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and emigrated to the US in 1955. He received his Bachelor of Science (1961) from

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, Master of Arts (1969) from

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(CUNY), and the PhD (1974) from New York University. He joined the faculty of St. John's University in 1974 and retired in 2011. Cipolla has written numerous scholarly articles on

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, Pirandello,

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and others. Some of his essays appear in ''Labyrinth: Studies on an Archetype''. He is also the author of a number of very successful booklets such as ''What Italy Has Given to the World'' and ''What Makes a Sicilian?'' He is President of ''

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'', an international organization that promotes the language and culture of

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and he is the editor of the journal ''Arba Sicula'' (Sicilian Spring) and the newsletter ''Sicilia Parra'' (Sicily Speaks). He is the general editor of three series of books for '' Legas Publishing'': ''Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula'', which has published five volumes; ''Sicilian Studies'', with six volumes; and ''Italian Poetry in Translation'' with seven volumes. Prof. Cipolla has translated several authors from the

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's ''The Origins of the World'', ''Don Chisciotti and Sanciu Panza'', and ''Moral Fables and Other Poems''; Vincenzo Ancona's ''Malidittu la lingua /Damned Language''; ''The Poetry of

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''; and Antonino Provenzano's ''Vinissi/I'd Love to Come''. He has also translated

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's play ''Violenza'' (2001), and ''History of Autonomous Sicily'' ('' Legas'' 2001) by Romolo Menighetti and Franco Nicastro. Cipolla is the U. S. representative of '' Legas Publishing'', a multilingual publishing company, and is based in

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