Literatures
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2021 World Poetry Day
Remembering Adam Zagajewski, who died on March 21, 2021 …One brief poem from his collection Eternal Enemies: DEFENDING POETRY, ETC. Yes, defending poetry, high style, etc.,but also summer evenings in a small town,where gardens waft and cats sit quietlyon doorsteps, like Chinese philosophers. Bibliography Zagajewski, Adam, and Clare Cavanagh. Eternal Enemies. New York: Farrar, Straus…
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Contagion, ethics, and compassion
What can a great novel from the past teach us in the time of the Corona virus? The Betrothed (1840) by Alessandro Manzoni speaks of the plague that struck Milan in 1630 but reveals political, social and cultural mechanisms very similar to ours.
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2020 World Poetry Day
The Problem of Spring by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1923 BIBLIOGRAPHY Mayakovsky, Vladimir, and Dorian Rottenberg. Vladimir Mayakovsky: Selected Works in Three Volumes. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1986. Print.Vol. II, pp.91-92.
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Oregon Petrarch Open Book
The website – hypertext includes different versions and formats of Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta from manuscript to digital culture. Translations, rewritings (including tweets), artistic and musical adaptations, and commentaries provide multiple texts and ways of looking at the original source materials. This allows for pedagogical, technical, and research-related innovation. https://wayback.archive-it.org/21835/20230817163249/https://petrarch.uoregon.edu/home
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On Borders and Monuments
This reflection on borders begins with the Monument to Victory in Bolzano, built by the Fascist regime in 1928 to remember Italian soldiers who fell in the First World War and to celebrate the victory over the Austro-Hungarian army. A reading from Hermann Hesse’s Wandering will follow. The monument was controversial and opposed by the…
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The Pale Mountains
This legend was published by Karl Felix Wolff in 1905, as part of the folkloric tradition of the Dolomites in an attempt to enhance the Ladin minority that elaborated most of the legends today associated with the Dolomites. In fact, it was first published in the magazine L’amik di Ladins/Der Ladinerfreund (The friend of the…
Massimo Lollini 