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…
Giuseppe Ungaretti is one of the major Italian poets of the XX century. He was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1888 and died in Milan…
Rocco Scotellaro was born in 1923 in the province of Matera, a very disadvantaged area in Southern Italy. It’s worth noting that Matera has come…
Bartolo Cattafi (1922-1979) is one of the main poets of post World-War II and, like his contemporaries, was deeply affected by the fascist period and…
