Leonardo Sinisgalli

Leonardo Sinisgalli – Eri dritta e felice / You stood straight and happy

Telemaco Signorini, Pastures in Castiglioncello, 1861 You stood straight and happy at the door the wind opened to the countryside. Drenched in light poised in the day, at the time of golden wasps when the elder’s marrow sweetens. We walked barefoot through the ditches then, we measured the sun’s heat by the prints left on …

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Leonardo Sinisgalli – Mi ricorderò di questo autunno / I will remember this autumn

Eliseu Visconti, Back to the trenches, c. 1917 I will remember this autumn beautiful and fleeing the migrant light that curves now as the reeds are being bowed by the wind. The floodwater in the canals has come up to my waist and, parched by the drought, I sank right in. At night in the …

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