Poet and novelist Umberto Saba was born in 1883 in Trieste when the city was under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in 1957 in nearby…
Contemporary poet Franco Fortini was born in Florence in 1917 and died in Milan in 1994. He graduated in Law and Humanities. With a Jewish…
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…
