Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Quasi un epigramma
Salvador Dalì, Cabaret scene, 1922 Il contorsionista nel bar, melanconico e zingaro, si alza di colpo da un angolo e
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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac – 34th Chorus
Akos Birkas, Early Morning, 2007 I have no plansNo datesNo appointments with anybody So I leisurely exploreSouls and Cities Geographically
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Veleggio come un’ombra / Sailing as a shadow
Witold Pruszkowski, Falling star, 1884 Sailing as a shadow in a dozing day, unknowingly I identify myself as disposed on
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Non avessi sperato in te
Felice Casorati, Waiting, 1919 Non avessi sperato in te e nel fatto che non sei un poeta di solo amore
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ogni giorno cerco il filo della ragione / Every day I look for
Agim Meta, The visible bears and the invisible woman, 2008 Every day I look for the strand of logic, but
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – E perciò non ti chiamerò al telefono
Frederick William Elwell, The wedding dress, 1911 E perciò non ti chiamerò al telefono nè avrò bisogno delle tue vene
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Accarezzami, amore / Caress me, my love
Angelo Dall’Oca Bianca, Stelle cadenti (Shooting stars), 1913 Caress me, my love, like the sun touching the lovely forehead of
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Betulle / Birch trees
Henri Camille Danger, The fireflies, 1896 You do not know: there are birch trees raising their roots at night, and
27/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Laggiù dove morivano i dannati / Down there where the damned died
Cornelis van Harleem, Fall of the titans, 1588 Down there where the damned died in decadent and crazy hell of
27/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Peace / Pace
John Liston Byam Shaw, the Woman and the Man the Serpent, 1911 Peace overflowing from heart sometimes can turn into
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Pescatore di spugne / Sponge fisher
Ferdinand Hodler, The dream, 1897 O sponge fisher down into my womb you have found the rare pearl of your
24/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Il bacio / The kiss
Jack Vettriano, Night geometry, 1996 The kiss quickly runs in my thoughts for a kiss I translated Homer all in
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ieri sera era amore / Last night it was love
Goxwa Borg, Kiss, c. 2000 Last night it was love, you and me in life fleeting and fugitive with one
23/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Le osterie / The inns
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1895 I like dark nooks of asleep inns, where people culminate in a
23/01/2020
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese – Ascolteremo nella calma stanca / We’ll hear in tired stillness
Theo van Rysselberghe, The Violinist, 1903 We’ll hear in tired stillness the distant music of our overwhelming youth, which arched
21/01/2020
John Keats
John Keats – Oh, se un raggio di sole / O, for some sunny spell
Oreste Pizio, Venus and Adonis crowned by Love, 1910 O, for some sunny spell to dissipate the shadows of this
20/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Liberatemi il cuore / Relieve my heart
John Byam Liston Shaw, Silent Noon, 1894 Relieve my heart from this insane season of love full of secret memories.
15/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ha nevicato molto sul mio destino / It snowed a lot on my destiny
Erté (1892-1990), Blossom umbrella It snowed a lot on my destiny a pouring and happy rain as the one of
15/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Neve/Snow
Ford Madox Brown, Manfred on the Jungfrau, 1842 Evening descends: again you leave us, o dear images of the earth,
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Un sepolto in me canta/A Burial Sings in Me
William Samuel Henry Llewellyn, Waterbaby, 1910 I exile myself; so shadow fills with myrtle, and subdued space lays me down
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Cavalli di luna e di vulcani/Horses of Volcanoes And The Moon
Joseph Noel Paton, Dionysus and Sea Nymphs, 1853 I inhabited islands green on a motionless sea. Shores of scorched seaweed,
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Nascita del canto/The Birth Of Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Summer, 1891 Arise: re-emergent light: bright burning leaves. I lie down in brimming rivers where there
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Senza memoria di morte/Without memory of death
Pauwels Franck (Paolo Fiammingo), Assembly of the Gods: The Loves of the Gods, c. 1585 Spring heightens the trees and
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Oboe sommerso/Sunken Oboe
Henri Gervex, Ophelia, 1910 Miser pain, delay your gift in this my hour of longed-for abandons. Chill, again an oboe
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Thanatos Athanatos
Konrad Witz, Pietà, c. 1440 And shall we have to deny thee then, God of the tumors, God of the
13/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Colore di pioggia e di ferro/Colors of rain and iron
John William Waterhouse, Boreas, 1903 You said: death, silence, solitude, like love, life. Words of our provisional images. And the
13/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Specchio/Mirror
Giovanni Bellini, Young Woman at her Toilet, 1515 And see, buds break out of the tree: a newer green in
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Rifugio d’uccelli notturni/A Refuge of Nocturnal Birds
Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Moonlight, 1889 High on a cliff there’s a twisted pine; intently it listens into the abyss with its
13/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Già la pioggia è con noi/Already the rain is with us
Andrea Tavernier, Last drops, 1898 The rain’s already with us, tossing silent air. The swallows skim spent waters, close by
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Ed È Subito Sera/Suddenly It’s Evening
George Inness, Sunset at Etretat, 1875 Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world pierced by a ray of
13/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Alle fronde dei salici/On the branches of the willows
Edward Burne-Jones, The Love Song, 1877 And how could we have sung with the foreign foot on our heart, among
13/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Giorno dopo giorno/Day after day
Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, Seaside cemetery, 1897 Day after day: the evil words and the blood and gold. I see in you,
13/01/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Riflessi/Reflections
Arnold Böcklin, The surf, 1883 Words – glassthat unfaithfullyreflects my sky –I thought of youafter sunsetin a darkened streetwhen a
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Lampi/Lightning
Willard Leroy Metcalf, May night, 1906 Tonight a trembling sky sick with black clouds sharpens in brilliant flashes my sleepless
12/01/2020
Attila Jozsef
Attila Jozsef (1905-1937)
Attila Jozsef is one of the most famous Hungarian poet of the 20th century, known as Hungary’s great “proletarian poet”.
12/01/2020
Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974)
Aldo Palazzeschi (pen name of Aldo Giurlani) was an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist. He was part of Futurism
12/01/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938)
Antonia Pozzi was an Italian poet. She committed suicide in 1938, aged 26. Pozzi is considered to be one of
12/01/2020
Guido Gozzano
Guido Gozzano (1883-1916)
Guido Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer. He was the prominent exponent of The Crepusculars, a group of Italian
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
Salvatore Quasimodo was a Sicilian novelist and poet, and one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. His
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Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Quelle come me / Those like me
Gustav Klimt, Hope, 1908 Those like me hand out dreams, even at the cost of being left dreamless… Those like
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Sono nata il ventuno a primavera / I was born in spring the twentyone
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Summer offering, 1911 I was born in spring the twentyone not knowing that to be born insane, to
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ho conosciuto in te le meraviglie / I met wonders in you
Arnold Böcklin, Triton and Nereid, 1875 I met wonders in you love wonders so new they looked like shells where
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Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Nessuno mi pettina bene come il vento / No one brushes my hair as well as the wind
Giovanni Segantini, Vanity, 1897 No one brushes my hair as well as the wind. Nessuno mi pettina bene come il
12/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ti aspetto e ogni giorno / I wait for you and every day
Amedeo Modigliani, Victoria, 1916 I wait for you and every day I die down little by little and I have
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Aesthetics, new media and phenomenology
Aesthetics, new media and phenomenology Phenomenology provides valuable insights to articulate the nature and experience of newmedia (Richardson, 2005, 2007;
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Digital Learning
What is digital learning? What does Books of Art achieve in terms of digital learning? New technologies have an impact
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NEW MEDIA AND VIRTUAL/NUOVI MEDIA E VIRTUALE
What are new media and how have they changed our perception of reality by creating virtual spaces? New media and
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – I want to live sleeping / Io vivere vorrei addormentato
Emma Sandys, Pleasant dreams, 1876 I want to live sleeping amid the sweet noise of life. (Transl. by Livio Loi)
19/12/2019
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Happy is he who’s different / Felice chi è diverso
James Ensor, Self-portrait with Masks, 1899 Happy is he who’s different really being different. But cursed is he who’s different
19/12/2019
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – La vita / Life is
Vittorio Matteo Corcos, At the Regatta, 1884 Life…is remembering a sad awakening in a train at dawn, seeing the hesitant
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