Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore – L’ultimo appuntamento
Friedrich Paul Thumann (1834-1908), Cupid and Psyche Mio unico amore! Baciami. Se la morte mi chiamerà prima di te, benedico
25/04/2020
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Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte – Non so come scenda su di me / I Know Not How It Falls on Me
Gabriel Ferrier, Evening, 1911 I know not how it falls on me,this summer evening, hushed and lone;yet the faint wind
25/04/2020
Vivian Lamarque
Vivian Lamarque – Giovinezza senza giardino / Youth with no garden
Giovanni Giani, The morning of roses (Il mattino delle rose – L’attesa), 1906 After so much garden you sombrely look
25/04/2020
Vivian Lamarque
Vivian Lamarque – L’amore mio
Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891), Reverie L’amore mio l’amore mio quale amore mio? L’amore mio non c’è Se no certo non
24/04/2020
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Viaggio al termine della notte / Journey to the end of the night
Hans Baluschek, Train station, 1904 Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our
24/04/2020
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa – Per essere grande, sii intero / To be great, be whole
Rob Gonsalves, Over the moon, 2016 To be great, be whole;exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in
24/04/2020
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht – Breviario Tedesco / A German War Primer
Tom Lea, The 2000 Yard Stare, 1944 When the leaders speak of Peacethe common folk knowthat war is coming.When the
24/04/2020
Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska – Gli sono troppo vicina / I am too close for him
Roberto Ferri (b. 1978), Sonno di Rugiada I am too close for him to dream about me.I’m not flying over
24/04/2020
Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska – Impresso nella memoria / Commemoration
Renato Guttuso, Il bosco d’amore (Love Wood), 1985 They made love among the hazel shrubsbeneath the suns of dew,entangling in
24/04/2020
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound – L’albero m’è penetrato nelle mani / The tree has entered my hands
Piero and Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Apollo and Daphne, c.1480 The tree has entered my hands,The sap has ascended my arms,The
23/04/2020
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound – Isola lacustre / The Lake Isle
Gaetano Previati, Haschisch, Le fumatrici d’oppio, 1887 O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due
23/04/2020
C. Sbarbaro
Camillo Sbarbaro – La bambina che va sotto gli alberi / The girl that walks under the trees
Alfred Stevens, Little Girl with Ducks, 1881 The girl that walks under the treesis only burdened by the weight of
23/04/2020
Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak – I giardini hanno nausea della lunga bonaccia
Winslow Homer, Warm Afternoon, 1878 I giardini hanno nausea della lunga bonaccia.Lo stupore dei burroni corrucciatisa mettere scompiglio, più tremendoe
23/04/2020
- Various/Vari
Heinrich Heine – Passa la nave mia / With black sails
Giorgio Belloni (1861-1944), Full Moon on the Sea With sails all black my ship sails on far over the raging
22/04/2020
Callimachus/Callimaco
Callimachus – A.P., Liber V, 6
Albert Joseph Moore, Loves of the Wind and The Seasons, c. 1892 Callignotus swore to Ionis that he would never
22/04/2020
Callimachus/Callimaco
Callimachus – Epigram XVI
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752 Who knows aright to-morrow’s fortune ? When even thee, Charmis,whom we saw with
22/04/2020
Callimachus/Callimaco
Callimachus – Elegy for Heraclitus
Gustave Courtois, Orpheus, 1875 Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus,and it moved me to tears, and I remembered howoften we
22/04/2020
G. D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio – I pastori / The Shepherds
Giovanni Fattori, Il Salto Delle Pecore (The Sheeps’ Jump), 1887 September, let us go. It’s time to migrate. Now in
22/04/2020
- Various/Vari
Heinrich Heine – Crepuscolo / Twilight
William Adolphe Bouguereau, The Wave, 1896 On the wan sea-strandlonely I lay, and in sorrowful brooding.The sun sank lower and
22/04/2020
- Italians
Corrado Govoni – La pioggia è il tuo vestito / Rain is your dress
Giovanni Fattori, La libecciata, 1885 Rain is your dress. Mud is your shoes. Wind is your cloth. But the sun
21/04/2020
- Italians
Bartolo Cattafi – Feste calme / Calm holiday
Isaac Levitan, A day in June, 1895 Skylarks rejoicein the calm holidays of heaventhe olive darkens on the groundthe green
21/04/2020
- Italians
Elio Pagliarani – Sotto la torre, al parco
Georges Seurat, A Sunday on la Grande Jatte, 1886 Sotto la torre, al parco, di domenica,con pacata follia, per ore
21/04/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 60
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871-1945), Romeo and Juliet Farewell Lunge da voi, mio core, mille volte m’uccide il mio dolore. Perché la
21/04/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 268
Gregorio Lazzarini, Rinaldo and Armida, c. 1690 As if it were Proteus or a magician, beauty shifts its shape and
21/04/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 289
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, Butterflies, 1891 Already you flew four times and you are In that so tender breast, A
21/04/2020
Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli – La madre
Ludwik Kurella, Rybka, 1869 E Glauco ascese. E poi la madre e il figlio vennero ancor dalla palude in terra,
21/04/2020
John Keats
John Keats – Dolci le udite melodie / Heard melodies are sweet
Harry George Theaker (1873-1954), A Song of Love Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft
21/04/2020
R. M. Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke – Baudelaire
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, The poet, 1896 The poet alone has united the world that falls apart in each of
21/04/2020
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri – Canto 5, Inferno
Gaetano Previati, Death of Paolo and Francesca, 1887 Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learnt, entangled him by that
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Fa’, nel librato paesaggio
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the yarnwinder, c. 1501 Fa’, nel librato paesaggio, ch’io possa risillabare le parole ingenue. Do
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Alba
Joseph Farquharson, Dawn, 1903 Zampilli di masse radiose spioventi in masse sinuose di perle. Do you know this poem in
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Il Tempo è Muto / The Time is Mute
Adrian Ludwig Richter, Crossing the Elbe at Aussig, 1837 The time is mute along motionless reeds… Far-off from landings wandered
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Oggi / Today
Fernand Khnopff, The mask, with a black curtain, 1909 Today everything seems to be overpassed today my heart is nothing
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Sentimento del tempo
Marc Chagall, Time is a river without banks, 1939 E per la luce giusta, cadendo solo un’ ombra viola sopra
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Di luglio
Paul Gauguin, Nave nave moe, 1894 Quando su ci si butta lei, si fa d’un triste colore di rosa il
21/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Sogno / Dream
Alphonse Osbert, The muse at sunrise, 1918 Lingering neath the wave no more dawn reclaims herself. In silvery flight all
21/04/2020
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg – A supermarket in California
Sigmar Polke, Supermarkets!, 1976 What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under
21/04/2020
Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet – Nostalgia
Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy of a beautiful day, 1913 Nostalgia never left my side throughout the journey it was right
21/04/2020
Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba – Un Ricordo / A Memory
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Country boys, 1916 I don’t sleep. I see a road, a grove making my chest tight, anxious; where
21/04/2020
Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba – Sfuma il turchino
Renè Magritte, L’acte de foi, 1960 Sfuma il turchino in un azzurro tutto stelle. Io siedo alla finestra e guardo.
21/04/2020
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse – Adolescente
Franz von Stuck, Circle dancing, 1910 Come sfioriscono i giorni alla pari di fredde danze! Nessuno vuol ardere e splendere,
21/04/2020
Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico García Lorca – Adelina a passeggio / Saturday Paseo: Adelina
Aristide Maillol, Woman with a Parasol, 1895 Oranges do not grow in the sea neither is there love in Sevilla.
21/04/2020
- Italians
Antonio Porta – Per caso mentre tu dormi / By chance, while you’re asleep
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In bed, 1893 By chance, while you’re asleepwith my fingers I unintentionally tickle you, and you laugh,you laugh,
20/04/2020
- Italians
Elio Pagliarani – E’ nostro questo cielo d’acciaio / This sky made of steel
Salvador Dalì, Honey is sweeter than blood, 1941 This sky made of steel is ours, it doesn’t pretend to beEden,
20/04/2020
- Italians
Patrizia Cavalli – Ringrazio la sedia la scala la poltrona
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In Bed, The Kiss, 1892 Ringrazio la sedia la scala la poltronache mi accoglieva in improvvisa debolezzaquando
19/04/2020
- Italians
Ludovico Ariosto – Aventuroso carcere soave
Pietro da Cortona, Venus Appearing to Aeneas as a Huntress, c. 1635 Aventuroso carcere soave,dove né per furor né per
19/04/2020
- Italians
Guido Ceronetti – E questa vuota follia d’uomo
Salvador Dalì, Hollywood, 1947 E questa vuota follia d’uomotutti i suoi rantoli più atroci e sguaiatipoi la sua pace di
19/04/2020
- Various/Vari
Rafael Alberti – Fiume rosso
Justyna Kopania, Hot summer rain Con le piogge non potròbagnarmi nel fiume, amante,perché va il corpo dell’acquaferito e avvolto in
19/04/2020
- Italians
Valerio Magrelli – Amo i gesti imprecisi / I Love Uncertain Gestures
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Dancing couple, 1914 I love uncertain gestures:someone stumbles, someone elsebangs his glasscan’t remember,gets distracted or the sentinelcan’t
19/04/2020
- Italians
Antonella Anedda – To Nathan Zach
Utagawa Hiroshige, Moonlight View of Tsukuda with Lady on a Balcony, 1850 Sit in front of the windowlook, but accept
19/04/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Era la vita tua lieta e gentile / Your life is pleasing and gentle
Carlo Ferranti, An Amorous Advance, c. 1908 Your life is pleasing and gentle. Along the way appeared a well-dressed gentleman,
19/04/2020