Journal of Italian Translation

Volume I, Number 2, Fall 2006

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Esssays

Angela M. Jeannet

Una doppia infedeltà

Gaetano Cipolla

Translating Andrea Camilleri into English: an Impossible Task?

Daniela Caselli

Eliot, Pound, Waley, Sayers: Notes Towards a Politics of Translation

1920-1960

Translations

Anne Milano Appel

English translation of excerpts from the novel Alla cieca by Claudio Magris

Santi Buscemi

English translation of the Golden Oranges, a fairy-tale by Luigi Capuana

Barbara Carle 

English translation of poems by Alfredo De Palchi

Blossom S. Kirshenbaum

English translation of excerpts from Fernanda Pivano’s Cos’è più la virtù

Emilise Aleandri

English translation of scenes from Riccardo Cordiferro’s L’onore perduto

Anthony Mortimer

English translation of Michelangelo’s burlesque poems and Sonetti

alla notte

Special Features

Poets on poets

Edited by Michael Palma

Ned Condini

English translation of poems by Carlo Betocchi

Charles Martin

English translation of nine sonnets by G.G. Belli

Confronti poetici

Edited by Luigi Fontanella

Featuring Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Claudio Damiani

Classics revisited

Joseph Tusiani translates Giovanni Pascoli’s “Italy”

Perspectives from the Other Shore

Edited by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai

Italian translations of poems by Adrienne Rich and Rita Dove

New Translators

Edited by John DuVal

Jordan Mills Pleasant

English translation of two sonnets from Dante’s tenzone with Forese Donati

Gianluca Rizzo

Italian translation of poems by James Shevill

Traduttori a duello

Edited by Gaetano Cipolla

English translations by Michael Palma and Gaetano Cipolla of “Elogio degli amori ancillari” by Guido Gozzano

Book Reviews

Stefano Baldassarri. Review Article – The Taming of the Secretary: Reflections on Some English Translations of Machiavelli’s Il Principe.

Joseph Tusiani. Ninety Love Octaves by Antonio Veneziano. Translated by Gaetano Cipolla.

Land of Time. Selected Poems 1972-2003 by Luigi Fontanella. edited by Irene Marchegiani.

Cosma Siani. Labirinti e vulcani nel cuore della Sicilia by Justin Vitiello. Translated by Veneziano Broccia and Justin Vitiello.

Gregory Pell. New Life: (a fictitious autobiographical story) by Barbara Carle. Translated by Marella Feltrin-Morris.