Donato Creti, Astronomical Observations: Jupiter, 1711 Voi mi chiamate verso la luna dagli abbaini di Bra. “Siedi anche tu, bevi e ridi” tra pipe e tarocchi e le scure bottiglie di barbera. Dietro le spalle i sonagli delle corti, il gluglu dei tacchini, la dolce tromba distrettuale. Allungo il braccio a te Cordero tra i …
Leonardo Sinisgalli – Voi mi chiamate verso la luna Read More »
Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the front, 1866 Come on here, peach-color cheeked girl, come on here, dawn-color cheeked girl and I hope I’m able to tell you my life when I was your age. In the curfew hours, the German troops ruled the town: we are ready. They who don’t want to bow their heads …
Italo Calvino – Oltre il ponte / Beyond the bridge Read More »
Oskar Kokoschka, Anschluss-Alice in wonderland, 1942 Sit down and bargain All you like grizzled old foxes We’ll wall you up in a splendid palace With food, wine, good beds and a good fire Provided that you discuss, negotiate For our and your children’s lives May all the wisedom of the universe Converge to bless your …
Primo Levi – Canto dei morti invano / Song of those who Died in Vain Read More »
John Liston Byam Shaw, the Woman and the Man the Serpent, 1911 Peace overflowing from heart sometimes can turn into blood, your love touches me sometimes and then evolves into drama… (Transl. by D. Foglia) La pace che sgorga dal cuore e a volte diventa sangue, il tuo amore che a volte mi tocca e …
Ford Madox Brown, Manfred on the Jungfrau, 1842 Evening descends: again you leave us, o dear images of the earth, trees, animals, poor people enclosed in the cloaks of the soldiers, mothers with insides made barren by tears. And the snow lights us from the meadows like moonlight. Oh, these dead. Beat on the forehead, …
Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, Seaside cemetery, 1897 Day after day: the evil words and the blood and gold. I see in you, my fellow creatures, monsters of the earth. Pity has fallen at your sting and the gentle cross has left us. I can’t go back to my Elysium. At the sea’s edge and in the savaged …
Salvatore Quasimodo – Giorno dopo giorno/Day after day Read More »
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