Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Paesaggio notturno / Night Landscape
Hans Baluschek, The express train arrives, 1900 It lies up there my childhood. There upon that hill that I see
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Attesa / Awaiting
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Shy, 1883 Today that I was waiting, you did not come. And I know what your absence
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Tempo che muta / Times change
John Everett Millais, Autumn leaves, 1856 Just as the colors of seasons change, so do the moods and thoughts of
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Passato / Past
Rene Magritte, The double secret, 1927 Our memories, these exceedingly long shadows of our brief body, this tail of death
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Abbandono / Abandonment
Marc Chagall, Solitude, 1933 You flew away like a dove and got lost yonder, to the East. Yet remained the
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Amicizia / Friendship
Felice Casorati, Platonic conversation, 1925 We do not know each other. I think of those days when, lost in time,
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Illusa gioventù / Deluded youth
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The first kiss, 1890 O youth, innocence, illusions, time with no sin, golden age! After you are past
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Gabbiani / Seagulls
Gustave Courbet, Girl with Seagulls,Trouville, 1865 I know not where seagulls make their nest where find they peace. I am
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Ritratto / Portrait
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665 There exists a carved mouth. The face of an angel, luminous
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Primo Levi
Primo Levi – July 12th, 1980
Marc Chagall, The birthday, 1915 Be patient, my tired lady, be patient for the stuff of the words, for your
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Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
Primo Levi is remembered for being a partisan, a Holocaust survivor and a writer. In 1943 he was arrested and
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Vittorio Sereni
Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983)
Vittorio Sereni was an Italian poet, editor and translator. He was drafted into the Italian Army during World War II.
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli (1887-1959)
Vincenzo Cardarelli was an Italian poet, writer and journalist. His poetry straddles the avant-garde and the restoration, as revealed by
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Giorgio Caproni
Giorgio Caproni (1912-1990)
Giorgio Caproni was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator. His poetry speaks about recurring themes as Genoa, Livorno, language
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet, best known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1581). Tasso suffered from mental
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Imminente Sera / Upcoming evening
Edward Burne-Jones, Night, 1870 Vast night tremble, sky high fragrance! I hear blue stars whispering words to me, not spoken
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Anima spodestata
Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann, 1883 Senza parole in petto, anima spodestata sono, nessuna antenna per richiamarti, solo questo mio
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Nome non ha
Henri Gervex (1852-1929), After the ball Nome non ha, amore non voglio chiamarlo questo che provo per te, non voglio
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Nel paese che mi somiglia / In the town that looks like me
Emilio Longoni (1859-1932), Alone! In the town that looks like me I lonely burn. Nobody has invited me to travel;
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Piango / I cry
Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless, 1963 I cry as others should cry over me, but nobody, nobody truly understands my anguish. I
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Rose calpestava / He trampled upon roses
Herbert James Draper, For Saint Dorothea’s day, 1899 In delirium, he trampled upon roses and upon the white body he
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Luce nella selva / Light in the forest
Thomas Dewing, Summer, 1890 Light in the forest, music of light, a darting elated and shining melody, shadows’ clamour, halos,
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Attila Jozsef
Attila Jozsef – It Isn’t Me Who Shouts/Non Io Grido
Jan Mandyn, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1550 It isn’t me who shouts, it’s the world that rumbles beware,
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi – Ara Mara Amara
Ditz, Playing cards, c. 2000 At the foot of the slope among the tall cypress, there is a small meadow.
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi – Rio Bo
Vincent Van Gogh, Starry night, 1889 Three little houses with pointed roofs, a green little meadow, a smallish brook: Rio
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo – Sono tornata bella / I’m beautiful again
Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), Woman with a Mirror, c. 1515 I’m beautiful again and this may be my last autumn. More
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Forse la giovinezza / Perhaps youth
Parmigianino, Diana and Actaeon (fresco in Fontanellato), c. 1524 Perhaps youth is just this, never-ending love of senses with no
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Se desolato io cammino / If I sadly walk
Plinio Nomellini, The fireflies, 1898 If I sadly walk behind that breath of hills, into a warm and dark night,
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Inverno / Winter
Ivan Kramskoj, Moonlight, 1880 I was there, on the early day living beyond the fir trees, I walked over enlightened
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Ninfee / Waterlilies
Claude Monet, Blue water lilies, 1919 I also have no roots tying up my life to earth; I also spring
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – E tu non dire / Don’t you say
Philip Wilson Steer, Young woman on the beach, 1889 Don’t you say I’m losing the meaning and the time of
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Sfiducia
Troy Brooks, The Shallows, 2015 Tristezza di queste mie mani troppo pesanti per non aprire piaghe, troppo leggere per lasciare
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Rigurgito di giovinezza (a L.B.)
Hans Heyerdahl, The girl with linen hair, 1890 Umida strada cielo d’ametista lacrime e lacrime sulle tue lunghe ciglia sulle
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Amor Fati
Evelyn De Morgan, Aurora triumphans, 1878 When in darkness you’ll brim with a crash in a waterfall of blood —
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Prati / Meadows
Francesco Albani, Adonis led by cupids to Venus (Detail), 1633 Perhaps life is really such as you find it in
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Grido / Scream
Guido Cagnacci, The Repentant Magdalene, 1627 Don’t have a God no grave nothing fixed only the living escape being without
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Mi nasconda la notte e il dolce vento / Let the night and the sweet wind
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Nocturne on the Bosphorus, 1897 Let the night and the sweet wind hide me. I was sent away
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Altura / The heights
Claude Monet, Water lilies, 1905 Wisteria bloomed slowly over us. The last boat crossed the lake at the foot of
05/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Inverno / Winter
Erte, Sleeping Beauty, 1983 Black threads of poplars – black threads of clouds on the red sky – and this
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Capodanno / New Year
Bryce Liston, Solstice, 2010 If the words tasted of snow this evening, what songs – and the stars that I’ll
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Morte di una stagione / Death of a season
Claudio Filippini (b. 1953), After the rain It rained all night on summer’s memories. In the dark we left inside
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Riflessi / Reflections
Arnold Bocklin, The Surf, 1883 Words – glassthat unfaithfullyreflects my sky –I thought of youafter sunsetin a darkened streetwhen a
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Notte / Night
Delphin Enjolras, The murmur of the sea, 1875 Night: dreaming about scattered enlightened windows. Hearing a clear voice from the
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Con il cielo coperto / A dull air
David Inshaw, The raven, 1971 A dull air, under a cloudy sky,full of missing distant noises,amidst my age(neither young nor
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Basta all’amore degli adoloscenti
Édouard Manet, On the beach, 1873 Basta all’amore degli adoloscenti sentirsi possedere dal sole entro la sabbia calda immoti. Do
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Se la vita sapesse il mio amore / If life knew my love
Titian (Tiziano), The Three Ages of Man, 1512 If life knew my love!I’d go tonight faraway. I’d go where the wind
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Nell’alto arido eremo
Gaetano Previati, Nocturne, 1909 Nell’ alto arido eremo salmastri venti a ridarmi dolore di luce. (E la notte di aprile
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Nel sonno incerto sogno ancora un poco
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), The Knight’s Dream, 1504 Nel sonno incerto sogno ancora un poco. È forse giorno. Dalla strada il
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Amore in elemosina chiedendo
Max Klinger, A glove, 1881 Amore in elemosina chiedendo andavo per la strada polverosa e il sole mi rideva intorno,
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Dal portiere non c’era nessuno
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Boy with a Cat, 1868 Dal portiere non c’era nessuno. C’era la luce sui poveri letti disfatti. E
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