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
19/04/2020
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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
18/04/2020
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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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
18/04/2020
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
17/04/2020
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
17/04/2020
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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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – 13 settembre 1966
Ron Hicks, On the phone, 2013 Le mani con un tremito del telefono stringevano il filo; mi aveva poco prima
17/04/2020
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Nazik Al-Malaika – Invito alla vita
Paolo Pagani, Jupiter and Semele, 1693 Arrabbiati, ti amo arrabbiato e ribelle, rivoluzione cocente, esplosione. Ho odiato il fuoco che
17/04/2020
Sergei Yesenin
Sergei A. Yesenin – Non ho rimpianti / I do not regret
Jules Breton, Last flowers, 1890 I do not regret, and I do not shed tears, all, like haze off apple-trees,
17/04/2020
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Mikhail Lermontov – Solitudine / Loneliness
Francesco Hayez, Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1825 It’s Hell for us to draw the fettersof life in alienation, stiff.All people prefer
17/04/2020
James Joyce
James Joyce – Ricordo degli attori nello specchio a mezzanotte / A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
Honoré Daumier, The Drama, 1860 They mouth love’s language. Gnashthe thirteen teethyour lean jaws grin with. Lashyour itch and quailing,
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Raymond Queneau – Quando tu avrai un passato, Yvonne / Some day you’ll have a past, Yvonne
William Stephen Coleman (1829-1904), The Butterfly Catcher Some day you’ll have a past, Yvonne, and you’ll see what a funny
17/04/2020
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez – Epitaffio ideale di un eroe / Ideal Epitaph to a Hero
William Orpen, To the Unknown British Soldier in France, 1927 He reached his death. But his living was so intense,
17/04/2020
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Robert Louis Stevenson – Requiem
Walter Crane, Shelley’s Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, 1873 Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and
17/04/2020
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Vera Pavlova – Non voglio un mattone dal tetto
Francesco Cairo (1607–1665), Cleopatra Non voglio un mattone dal tetto –voglio morire lentamente.Voglio morire, osservandoil corpo che secerne, gocciadopo goccia,
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James Joyce
James Joyce – Tilly
Joseph Farquharson, The Shortening Winter’s Day is near a Close, 1903 He travels after a winter sun,urging the cattle along
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Jaime Gil de Biedma – Ultramort
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950 Una casa deserta che io amo,a due ore da qui,mi serve di conforto.Sulle sue
16/04/2020
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Estasi
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Immaculate Conception, 1769 Accostandosi le ciglia lentamente, quasi senza voce mi chiudono nelle mani esangui una perla.
16/04/2020
Attila Jozsef
Attila Jozsef – Avvincono al tormento
Lovis Corinth, Ecce Homo, 1925 Avvincono al tormento due corde, ne sono stretto da ogni parte: il nodo non trovo
16/04/2020
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe – An Acrostic
William John Hennessy, The Pride of Dijon, 1879 Elizabeth it is in vain you say“Love not” — thou sayest it
16/04/2020
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Gerard Manley Hopkins – Porto Celeste / Heaven-Haven
Pompeo Mariani (1857-1939), La sposa del mare (Sea’s bride) A nun takes the veil I have desired to gowhere springs
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Lionel Johnson – La chiesa di un sogno / The church of a dream
Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749), Prayer of the Penitent Monks Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind, around the weather-worn,
16/04/2020
R. M. Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke – Solitudine / Loneliness
Sergey A. Tutunov, Twilight, 1972 Being apart and lonely is like rain. It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
16/04/2020
Stephane Mallarmè
Stephane Mallarmé – Il Pagliaccio Punito / The Clown Chastised
James Ensor, The Despair of Pierrot, 1892 Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be rebornOther than as the actor
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Stephane Mallarmè
Stephane Mallarmè – La tomba di Edgar Poe / The Tomb of Edgar Poe
Pedro Saenz, The Poet’s Tomb, 1901 Such as into Himself at last eternity changes him,the Poet with a naked sword
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas – Discopre i suoi nervi il mio eroe / My hero bares his nerves
Tanzio da Varallo, David and Goliath, c. 1625 My hero bares his nerves along my wrist That rules from wrist
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Vera Pavlova – Fingo d’esser ubriaca
Pablo Picasso, Dama en Eden Concert, 1903 Fingo d’esser ubriacaPer esser teneraFingo d’esser stupidaPer dire “T’amo”Fingo d’esser vecchiaPer non dover
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Vera Pavlova – Tessendo l’aria
Alice Pike Barney, Waterlily (Ophelia), c. 1909 Tessendo l’aria con le narici da fitta matassa una tela di versi tesseva
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- Italians
Walter Gioia – Risveglio / Awakening
Léon Frédéric, Fragrance, 1894 Whatever flower you are,when your time comes, you will bloombecause there is no better flower than what
15/04/2020
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Books of Art a scuola / Books of Art at school
How to use this website at school? Description and analysis of the class held at L. E. Institute of Higher
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New Museology, digital collection and new media art
Can new media affect museums, the fruition and the creation of art? Are audience expectations and participation changing with the
14/04/2020
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Arthur Symons – Nel bosco di Finvara / In The Wood Of Finvara
Sergei Vinogradov, Gathering Mushrooms in the Forest in Latvia, 1927 I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears;life is
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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal – O foresta silenziosa / A Silent Wood
Emile Bernard, Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour, 1888 O silent wood, I enter theewith a heart so full of miseryfor
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Marina Cvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva – 3 Luglio 1916
Marc Chagall, War, 1964 Un bianco sole e basse, basse nubi, lungo gli orti – dietro il muro bianco –
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Louise Ackermann – Amore e Morte / Love and Death
Eugène Delacroix, Romeo and Juliet at the Tomb of the Capulets, 1849 Watch them pass, these ephemeral couples!In the arms
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Ivo Andrić – La salvezza
Jacopo Ligozzi, Agony in the Garden, c.1587 Novecento crepuscoli attendevano una gioia,mentre vivevodimenticato, abbandonato, disprezzato,Calpestato come il ponte sull’acqua.Una sera
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Georg Trakl – Lamento / Lament
Michael Mathias Kiefer, North Sea, 1943 Sleep and death, the dusky eaglesaround this head swoop all night long;eternity’s icy wavewould
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