COMMEMORATIONS FOR THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF DANTE ALIGHIERI How Dante changed my life from Melbourne to Umbria in a heart beat Professor…
Alda Merini was one of the foremost women poets of the last century. Born in Milan in 1931, she died there at the age of…
Umberto Saba was born in 1883 in Austro-Hungarian Trieste. He engaged in various types of employment, including writing for Mussolini’s newspaper Il popolo d’Italia in…
In my last column of 2019 I selected Rocco Scotellaro and included two short poems of his. I wish to share with you two more…
Buon anno ai gatti Ho conosciuto un tale, di Voghera o di Scanno, che voleva fare ai gatti gli auguri di Capodanno. Andando per la…
