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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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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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,
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – O solitario intorno a una fontana / Lonely, you stand near the fountain
Maria Fortuny, Il contino, 1861 Lonely, you stand near the fountain, your face reflected in the water. The raw poetry
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Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado – Al grande zero / To the Great Circle of Nothing
Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the Ocean, 2000 When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingand rested, which rest it
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Diane Wakoski – Il padre del mio paese / The Father of My Country
Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham, Alone in London, 1904 My father was not in the telephone bookin my city;my father was
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W. Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – Essere o non essere (Monologo di Amleto)/ To be or not to be (Hamlet Monologue)
Luigi Russolo, Self-portrait with skulls, 1909 To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the
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Edith Sodergran
Edith Sodergran – Noi donne / We women
Otto Dix, Newborn Baby on Hands, 1927 We women, we are so close to the brown earth. We ask the
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Ematologia pediatrica
Amedeo Modigliani, The Blue eyed Boy, 1916 Turbini di cranio fessi, lancinanti lampi nascosti tra le tende, le stanze disegnate
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R. M. Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke – Bocca di statua
Jean-Leon Gerome, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1890 La bocca lor par bocca di statua, che non si schiuse al suono, al
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Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci – Il cesarismo
Andrea Mantegna, ,The Triumphs of Caesar, c. 1492 Giove ha Cesare in cura. Ei dal delitto Svolge il diritto, e
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Favola
Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Princess with a spindle, 1896 In un salone in cui gridano gli ori – sorpresi dalla luce dell’aprile
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G. Seferis
Giorgos Seferis – Eleni / Helen
George Barbier, La Belle Helene, 1928 Tearful bird, on sea-kissed Cyprus consecrated to remind me of my country, I moored
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett – Cascando
Bartosz Dluzewski, A Couple In The Dark, 2017 Why not merely the despaired of occasion of wordshed is it not
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Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine – Orribile notte d’insonnia / Awful Night
George Hendrik Breitner, Reclining nude, c. 1887 Horrible night of insomnia! – without the presence of your dear blessed body
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Leonardo Sinisgalli
Leonardo Sinisgalli – Visita agli etruschi
Enrique Serra y Auque (1859-1918), A classical garden Non vollero rose sulle mense ma pasti sanguigni e intorno giuochi per
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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski – Ultime Volontà e Testamento / Last Will and Testament
Dino Valls, Vera Icon, 2007 You stop agonizing for a while thinking that maybe life’s true essence has risen to the top (temporarily) or
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova – Dedica / Dedication
Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1874-1939), March night, Russia Mountains fall before this grief, A mighty river stops its flow, But prison
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramon Jimenez – Gioia del sogno
George Elgar Hicks, The return home, 1873 Gioia del sogno, che mai uguagliò nessuna gioia reale! E che triste gioia
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Bernard de Ventadorn – Quando erba nuova e nuova foglia appare / When tender grass and leaves appear
Correggio, Venus and Cupid with a Satyr, c. 1528 If I could find her all alone,sleeping or playing so for
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore – O stolto, che cerchi di portare / O Fool, try to carry
Augustus Edwin Mulready, Fatigued Minstrels, 1883 O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! O beggar, to come
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Otto René Castillo – Eravamo così lontani / We were so far
Gustave Courtois, Persée délivrant Andromède, 1913 We were so far from each otherseas were among us,and mountains, and waters,fire and
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