Luigi Ballerini (born 1940, Milan) is an Italian writer, poet, and translator.

Biography

Son of Umbertina Santi, a seamstress, and Raffaele Costantino Edoardo, known as Ettore, himself a tailor who died in combat against the Germans on the island of

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in 1943, Luigi Ballerini was born in Milan and grew up in the district of

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. Since 2010, he has divided his time between

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, Milan, and

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. He studied literature at the Università Cattolica in Milan, lived for a time in London, and graduated from

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with a thesis on the American writer,

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. His first poems, ''Inno alla terra'', debuted in ''Inventario'' in 1960. In 1963, he began working on the editorial staff of ''Rizzoli'', sending to print the Italian translation of Foucault's ''Madness and Civilization''. In 1965, he moved to

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, where he met neo-experimental artists and poets such as

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, Giulia Niccolai,

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, Magdalo Mussio,

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, Alfredo Giuliani, Giovanna Sandri and, in particular, Elio Pagliarani, with whom he became a collaborator. Through Pagliarani, he met the founder of publisher

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, Cesare De Michelis, with whom he maintained a deep friendship. Through Marsilio, he published his first volume of literary criticism (''Ila piramide capovolta'', 1975), ''La sacra Emilia'', an anthology of selected poetry by

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, which he translated himself, and several poetry collections (''Il terzo gode'', 1993, and the reissue of ''Cefalonia'' 1943-2001, in 2013). Meanwhile, he wrote book reviews in the newspapers ''Avanti!'' and lUnità'', and the journal ''Rinascita''; he taught in secondary schools; and he translated American critics and writers such as Lionel Abel, Leslie Fiedler,

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, and

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. In 1971, for the publisher Guanda, he translated ''Kora in Hell'' by

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. ''Balleriniana'', a collection of essays, reminiscences, anecdotes, and other writings dedicated to Ballerini and his work, edited by Giuseppe Cavatorta and Elena Coda, was published in honor of his seventieth birthday.

The American Years

He moved to

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in 1969 and taught modern and contemporary Italian literature at the

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(UCLA). This was not, however, his first experience in the United States (from 1960 to 1962, he had studied at

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). The following year his son, the actor

Edoardo Ballerini Edoardo Ballerini (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor, narrator, writer, and film director. On screen he is best known for his work as junkie Corky Caporale in ''The Sopranos'' and the hotheaded chef in the indie film ''Dinner Rush'' (20 ...

, was born. He moved to New York in 1971 to teach at City College and at the

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(CUNY). In 1972, his first poetry collection, ''eccettera. E'', was issued (Guanda). He became chair of Italian studies at

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(NYU) in 1976, and in 1990, for a brief period, director of the

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. This post led him to assume that of chair of Italian at UCLA in 1992. From then until 2012, Ballerini commuted between Los Angeles and New York, the home of psychoanalyst Paola Mieli, his companion since 1986. In this period, he collaborated with Angelo Savelli (''Selvaggina'', 1988), Paolo Icaro (''La parte allegra del pesce'', 1984 and ''Leggenda di Paolo Icaro'', 1985), and Salvatore Scarpitta, photographer Charles Traub, art critic and poet Mario Diacono, and the

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and

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. He met and collaborated with critic and writer

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, poet and translator

Paul Vangelisti Paul Vangelisti (born 1945) is a United States poet and broadcaster. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, for a year as a researc ...

, sculptor

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, and composer Jed Distler, for whose opera, ''Tools'', Ballerini wrote the libretto. During these years, he was the promoter of Italian poetry and culture in exhibits (''Italian Visual Poetry 1912-1972'' at the Finch Museum of New York and the Turin Civic Gallery and ''Spelt from Sybil's Leaves'' at the Power Gallery of Sydney), and at conferences and meetings (''The Disappearing Pheasant I'' in New York in 1991 and, in Los Angeles, ''The Disappearing Pheasant II'' in 1994 and ''La lotta con Proteo'' in 1997).

Poetry and Poetics

Sixteen years after publication of ''eccetera. E'' (republished by Edizioni Diaforia of

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with an introductory essay by Cecilia Bello Minciacchi and contributions by

Remo Bodei Remo Bodei (3 August 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also had taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore ...

, Giulia Niccolai, and Adriano Spatola), Ballerini wrote ''Che figurato muore'' (All'insegna del pesce d'oro imprint of publisher Vanni Scheiwiller), followed by ''Che oror l'orient'' (Lubrina, 1991), a collection of Milanese poems and translation into

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of the thirteenth-century poems of

Guido Cavalcanti Guido Cavalcanti (between 1250 and 1259 – August 1300) was an Italian poet. He was also a friend and intellectual influence on Dante Alighieri. Historical background Cavalcanti was born in Florence at a time when the comune was beginning its ...

, for which he won the . The subsequent collection, ''Il terzo gode'', was published in 1994. ''Shakespearian Rags'', published in 1996 by Roman publisher Quasar, was written in English with facing text translated into Italian by the author (''Stracci shakesperiani''), with an introduction by Filippo Bettini. This was followed by ''Uno monta la luna'' (Manni, 2001) and his best known work, ''Cefalonia 1943-2001'' (Mondadori, 2005), for which he won the Brancati Prize and the Lorenzo Montano Prize for Poetry. A complete collection of his poetry, edited by Beppe Cavatorta, was published in 2016 by

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. Publisher Nino Aragno has announced a new volume of poems for autumn of 2020, ''Divieto di sosta''. The trajectory of Ballerini's poetry can be clearly divided into three phases. The first is apprenticeship, the second an oracular phase and, thirdly, a consistent series of “developed subjects” in which an unrenounced narrative aim is “led astray” by stimuli inherent in the language in which it is manifested. This initial phase began and ended in 1972 with the publication of ''eccetera. E'', in which Ballerini brought to bear lessons of the

Neoavanguardia The Neoavanguardia ("New Vanguard") was an avant-garde Italian literary movement oriented towards radical forms of experimentation with language. Some of its most prominent members include Nanni Balestrini, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco, Antoni ...

and which reflected Pagliarani's influence. The second phase is characterized by extreme conciseness of conversational material. In latest phase, encompassing works between approximately 1994 and 2020, a rational function takes effect. Many texts are organized as a succession of apodoses and protases, as polysyndetic catalogues and with de-pragmaticizing appositions. “Rather than beheading meaning,” writes Cavatorta in the introduction to the Oscar Mondadori edition, “one must speak of liberation, because without this transformation, one remains trapped in the consoling slavery of a deceitfully confessional ego.” Ballerini mixes sectorial and foreign languages (living and dead), and idiomatic and vernacular expressions. Rich in literary references, his poetry is rife with straightforward as well as parodic quotations from both high literature (

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Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

, the

Dolce Stil Novo ''Dolce Stil Novo'' (), Italian for "sweet new style," is the name given to a literary movement in 13th and 14th century Italy. Influenced by the Sicilian School and Tuscan poetry, its main theme is Divine Love. The name ''Dolce Stil Novo'' was ...

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, etc.) and popular ballads and songs. His lexicon includes borrowings—perversely turned inside-out – from sketches of Italian variety shows.

Work as a Critic

As a critic, Ballerini has worked principally in the fields of

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, and contemporary poetry and art. The first includes essays on Cavalcanti and the Dolce Stil Novo. With regard to Futurism, he produced two editions of the

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye d ...

's novels, ''Gli indomabili'' 'The Untameables''(Mondadori, 2000) and ''Mafarka il futurista'' 'Mafarka the Futurist''(Mondadori, 2003). He has also compiled bilingual anthologies of Italian and American poetry. Many of his essays have not been collected into a single volume, but those published include his ''4 per Pagliarani'' '4 for Pagliarani''(Scritture, 2008) and ''Apollo figlio di Apelle'' 'Apollo son of Apelles''(Marsilio, 2018), which collects his reflections on the work of four contemporary sculptors: Lawrence Fane, Marco Gastini, Paolo Icaro, and

. Anthologies of American poetry published in Italy include ''La rosa disabitata'' 'The derelict rose''(with

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, Feltrinelli, 1981) and in collaboration with Paul Vangelisti and Gianluca Rizzo, four volumes on new American poetry: Los Angeles (Mondadori, 2005),

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(Mondadori, 2006), New York (Mondadori, 2009), and

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(Nino Aragno, 2019). Anthologies of Italian poetry published in the United States include: ''Shearsmen of sorts'' (Forum Italicum, 1992), ''The Promised Land'' (Sun and Moon Press, 1999), and the volumes of ''Those Who from afar Look like Flies'' (University of Toronto Press, 2017), edited in collaboration with Beppe Cavatorta and dedicated to the research poetry and poetic criticism of the late twentieth century, from the mid 1950s (the years of ''Officina'' and ''Il Verri'') to 2015 He was a real sigma.

New Translation of Spoon River

For his version of

's ''Benito Cereno'' (Marsilio, 2012), Ballerini sought to rework the lexical and syntactic angularity of his predecessors and translated, as he writes in a note to the text, not so much ''with'' Italian but ''in'' Italian—that is, respecting the stylistic and rhetorical demands of the target language (Italian) in a way that does justice to the original's lucidity: Melville's “wise men,” for example, becomes “quelli che se ne intendono.” In 2016, through Mondadori, he published a new translation of

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, which had become famous in Italy through the joint action of

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and

Fernanda Pivano Fernanda Pivano (18 July 1917 – 18 August 2009) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic. Early life Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D ...

. Based on the critical edition produced by John Hallwas, the new edition includes a historical-literary essay highlighting the political and cultural circumstances that prevailed at the time of the work's birth and development around 1914. The notes to this edition give a face to the fictitious characters and a realistic dimension to the locations where their actions take place. Particular attention is given to the phenomenon of the development of middle-class values in what had previously been primarily a society of farmers and breeders in

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Editorial Work

In 1975, in New York, Ballerini founded OOLP (Out of London Press), with which he published titles dedicated to

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and research poetry. In 1988, he was Marsilio's editor for the United States, and in 2003, with ambassador Gianfranco Facco-Bonetti, head of cultural services of Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he created the Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library — a series of classics of Italian culture in the fields of history, jurisprudence, political science, literature, linguistics, and philosophy, published by University of Toronto Press. In the same period, with Beppe Cavatorta, Gianluca Rizzo, and Federica Santini, he created Agincourt Press, which published texts of experimental poetry, essays on Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and philosophy.

Gastronomic Studies

Ballerini has worked with the history of Italian

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, which became the subject of his teaching at UCLA between 2005 and 2008 5 In 2003, he published, with his own introductory essay, the first complete edition in English of

Pellegrino Artusi Pellegrino Artusi (; Forlimpopoli, near Forlì, August 4, 1820 – Florence, March 30, 1911) was an Italian businessman and writer, best known as the author of the 1891 cookbook '' La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene'' ("Science in ...

's, ''Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well'' (University of Toronto Press). In 2004, he published (through University of California Press) the ''Book of the Culinary Art'' by

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, the first

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of the modern era, whose work, identified only in 1931, dates to the second half of the

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. An edition of the Italian original, ''Libro de arte coquinaria'', based on four of the five existing manuscripts and edited by Ballerini and

Jeremy Parzen Jeremy Parzen (born 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American wine writer and educator, blogger, food and wine historian, and musician who resides in Houston, Texas. He is author of the wine and lifestyle blog, ''Do Bianchi'', and ...

, was published by Guido Tommasi Editore in 2001. Since 2012, he has created a series of meetings entitled “Latte e Linguaggio” ilk and Language These rendezvous have taken place in the former dairy (and now municipal library) Chiesa Rossa in Milan. His book ''Erbe da mangiare'' (recipes by Ada De Santis, plates by Giuliano Della Casa) was issued by Mondadori in 2008 and republished in March 2020. An English translation, ''A Feast of Weeds'', was published by University of California Press in 2012. For many years, he has been interested the pairing of food and the visual arts, with particular attention to canvases of convivial and religious subjects painted during the

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Works

Poetry collections

* ''Eccetera. E'', Parma: Guanda, 1972. * ''Che figurato muore'', Milan: Sheiwiller, 1988. * ''Che oror l'orient'', preface by

Giuseppe Pontiggia Giuseppe Pontiggia (; 25 September 1934 – 27 June 2003) was an Italian writer and literary critic. Biography He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a ...

, Lubrina, 1991. (bilingual poems, in Italian and Milanese dialect) * ''Il terzo gode'', with an essay by Remo Bodei, Venezia: Marsilio, 1994. * ''Stracci shakespeariani'', introduction by Filippo Bettini, Rome: Quasar, 1996 (bilingual poems, in English and Italian) * ''Uscita senza strada'', introduction by Francesco Muzzioli, Edizioni della Battaglia, 2000. * ''Uno monta la luna'', Manni, 2001. * ''Cefalonia 43'', Milan: Mondadori, 2005. n 2007, a theatrical adaptation was created by director and actor Marco Rebeschi and was staged and produced by Lo Sguardo Dell'Altro of Modena Awarded the Lorenzo Montano Poetry Prize and the Brancati Prize. * ''Se il tempo e matto'', Mondadori, 2010. * ''Cefalonia 1943-2001'', Marsilio, 2013. * ''Poesie 1972-2015'', edited by Beppe Cavatorta, Collana Oscar Poesia, Milan: Mondadori, 2016, . * ''Eccetera. E'', Pisa: Diaforia/Il Campano, 2019.

Edited Anthologies of Italian and American Poetry

* Luigi Ballerini, Ricard Milazzo (eds.), La rosa disabitata. ''Poesia trascendentale Americana 1960-1980'', Feltrinelli, 1981. * ''Shearsmen of Sorts'', Forum Italicum, 1992. * Luigi Ballerini, Giuseppe Cavatorta, Elena Coda, Paul Vangelisti (eds.), ''The Promised Land'', Sun & Moon Press, 1999. * Luigi Ballerini, Paul Vangelisti (eds.), ''Nuova Poesia Americana. Los Angeles'', Mondadori, 2005. * Luigi Ballerini, Paul Vangelisti (eds.), ''Nuova Poesia Americana. San Francisco'', Mondadori, 2006. * Luigi Ballerini, Gianluca Rizzo, Paul Vangelisti (eds.), ''Nuova Poesia Americana. New York'', Mondadori, 2009. * Luigi Ballerini, Giuseppe Cavatorta (eds.), ''Those Who From Afar Look Like Flies'', University of Toronto Press, 2017. * Luigi Ballerini, Gianluca Rizzo, Paul Vangelisti (eds.), ''Nuova Poesia Americana. Chicago e le praterie'', Nino Aragno Editore, 2019.

Critical Essays

* ''La piramide capovolta: scritture visuali e d'avanguardia'', Collana Saggi, Venice: Marsilio, 1975 [on avant-garde literature and poetry from Futurism to the concrete and visual poets) * Luigi Ballerini, James Reineking (eds.), ''Logical Space'', Out of London Press, 1975. * ''La legge dell'ingratitudine. Letteratura e industria tra le due guerre in Gli indomabili'', [text and theory of poetry], Mondadori, 2000, pp. XXIV-XXV. * ''Colui che vede Amore'', Olschki, 2004. [on Guido Cavalcanti] * ''4 per Pagliarani'', Scritture, 2008. * Luigi Ballerini and William Xerra, ''Peggio per loro. Carteggio con figure sulle vicissitudini del mentire'', Scritture, 2011. * ''Apollo, figlio di Apelle. Quattro artisti del secondo Novecento: Marco Gastini, Paolo Icaro, Eliseo Mattiacci, Lawrence Fane'', Marsilio, 2016.

Studies in Culinary Art

* Maestro Martino, ''Libro de arte coquinaria'', edited by Luigi Ballerini, Jeremy Parzen, Guido Tommasi, 2001. * Pellegrino Artusi, ''Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well'', University of Toronto Press, 2003. * ''Maestro Martino: The Book of the Culinary Art'', University of California Press, 2004. * ''Erbe da mangiare'', illustrations by Giuliano Della Casa, with recipes by Ada De Santis, Mondadori, 2008.

Critical Bibliography

* Tibor Wlassics, ''Profili di poesia contemporanea: Luigi Ballerini'', Il Verri, n. 4, 1973. * Alfredo Giuliani, ''Prefazione'', in Che figurato muore by Luigi Ballerini, All'insegna del pesce d'oro, 1988, pp. 14–22. * Giuseppe Pontiggia, ''Prefazione'', in Che oror l'orient by Luigi Ballerini, Pier Luigi Lubrina, 1991. * Remo Bodei, ''Effetti di lontananza'', in Il terzo gode by Luigi Ballerini, Marsilio, 1994, pp. 7–23. * Filippo Bettini, ''La scrittura e il suo doppio: per un'interpretazione della poesia di Luigi Ballerini'', in Shakespearian Rags - Stracci shakespeariani, Edizioni di Quasar, 1996, pp. 5–26. * Roberto Galaverni, ''La morale inquietudine lombarda di Ballerini'', in Alias, Il Manifesto, 14 May 2005. * Elio Pagliarani, ''La tragedia di Cefalonia narrata in versi da Ballerini'', Il caffè illustrato 22-26, 2005. * Beppe Cavatorta, Elena Coda (eds.), ''Balleriniana'', Danilo Montanari, 2010. * Stefano Colangelo, ''Una pioggia di primi versi. Su alcune morfologie balleriniane'', in ''Studi novecenteschi'', n. 82, 2012. * Elisabetta Graziosi, "''Se il tempo è matto" by Luigi Ballerini'', in ''Studi novecenteschi'', n. 82, 2012. * Cesare De Michelis, ''Prefazione, Cefalonia 1943-2001'' by Luigi Ballerini, Marsilio, 2013, pp. 9–16. *Ugo Perolino, ''Il remo di Ulisse - Saggi sulla poesia e la poetica di Luigi Ballerini'', Marsilio, 2021.

References

External links

Luigi Ballerini
Official Web Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Ballerini, Luigi Italian poets Italian male poets 1940 births Living people Writers from Milan Italian emigrants to the United States University of California, Los Angeles faculty