Our cultural presentation on 6 April 2017 was a talk with the intriguing title “Shakespeare as an Italian”, given by Canberra-based poet and university lecturer,…
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is one of my favourite intellectuals of the XXth century, for many reasons. Firstly, he was talented in a number of…
In the last edition of this newsletter I presented a poem on Venice by Diego Valeri. As I like this poet very much because of…
Diego Valeri is a very accessible 20th c. poet. Born near Padua in January 1887, he died in Rome in November 1976. He pursued a…
This month I wish to feature a poem inspired by an olive tree, written by local poet Mark O’Connor while sojourning in Italy. It’s in…