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This podcast is dedicated to English speakers who would like to know moreabout Italian Poetry, but don’t speak Italian. You can hear a summary of each poem in English, then the original in Italian,and you can also follow along on our website, where you’ll find resources tohelp find your way across languages.
Unknown Host hosts Italian Poetry, a education show with 53 episodes published.
Today we read Gli ignavi , by Dante Alighieri. The third book of Dante’s Comedy is filled with quotable expressions that are still frequently used in Italian. Such is the ammonition that closes the inscription on the Doo
Today we read In quella parte del giovanetto anno , by Dante Alighieri. This extract from the Chant XXIV of Dante’s Comedy is likely not one you find in anthologies: no big names of the time discussing their damnation, n
Today we read Tu mi vorresti come uno dei tuoi gatti , by Patrizia Cavalli. Patrizia Cavalli writes in a register that sounds, on first reading, like overheard conversation: colloquial, quick, often bitingly funny. But u
Today we read Sole d’inverno , by Ada Negri. We’ve met Ada Negri before , when she was sixty and writing about February’s tentative promise of spring. This poem, from Il dono , finds her six years later, still attu
Today we read Il presepio , by Gabriele D’Annunzio. Gabriele D’Annunzio is not usually the author you’d associate with simple little nursery rhymes about kids reciting religious stuff and getting candy from their grandma
Today we read La pioggia nel pineto, by Gabriele D'Annunzio. We are back with another staple poem that everyone my age is familiar with, and has probably had to at least partially know by heart at some point during their
Today we read Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia, by Giacomo Leopardi. A friend of mine once told me that (good) Literature and Philosophy are much more difficult to tell apart than one usually thinks, becaus
Today we read Un’ape esser vorrei, by Torquato Tasso. I should perhaps feel a bit bad inflicting on you minor poems from major poets, but this madrigale from Torquato Tasso is just too delightful in its effortless lightn
Today we read Alla sera, by Ugo Foscolo. I will admit to a snobbish tendency to avoid presenting here the most widely known Italian poems, let alone those learned by heart by most students. And I do believe it is a good
Today we read Avvertimento a un giovane scrittore, by Giuseppe Giusti. Many of Giusti’s most famous poems are political and satirical in nature, and thus require some knowledge of Italy’s and Europe’s complicated and dep
Today we read Rinovazione del buon Capo d’Anno a D. Ciccio per l’ingresso del 1683, by Giovanni Francesco Lazzarelli. Not sure what the very best way to start a year might be, but one can’t go wrong starting with a smile
Today we read Natale, by Giuseppe Ungaretti. Christmas happens every year, even when we are at war. This poem by Ungaretti is introduced by the indication “Napoli il 26 dicembre 1916”: he was on temporary leave from the
Today we read Io vidi già seder nell’arme irato, by Leon Battista Alberti. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the great architects of the Italian Renaissance, but like many humanists of the period he wore several other hat
Today we read Non, Vita, perché tu sei nella notte, by Camillo Sbarbaro. We recently read how Quasimodo, in his Ed è subito sera, referred to life as a “ray of light,” soon disappearing. Sbarbaro starts this poem with a
Today we read Caro luogo, by Umberto Saba. Two young lovers are looking for a place where they can “make one life out of two.” All the afternoon they wander around under the sun, surrounded by the noise and the comings a
Today we read L’orologio da rote, by Ciro di Pers. Complaining about technology is not something modern. So while today we blame social media for decline in mental health and ai for stealing jobs and possibly killing eve
Today we read Ed è subito sera, by Salvatore Quasimodo. How do you put the whole of human existence in three verses? Well, this is one way. Are you an uncharitable reader who isn’t impressed by Quasimodo’s Nobel Prize an
Today we read La Nencia di Barberino, by Lorenzo de Medici. The attribution of today’s poem to Lorenzo il Magnifico is not certain, but has a long tradition. Despite such a lofty author, the topic is very prosaic: a rust
Today we read Non ha l’ottimo artista, by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Besides painting, sculpting and designing buildings, Michelangelo also wrote poetry. He might not be often remembered for his literary efforts, which he
Today we read Sembran fere d’avorio in bosco d’oro, by Anton Maria Narducci. You gotta love Baroque poetry. The author of this sonnet must have gotten tired of the never-ending repetition of the “angelic woman with golde
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