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Blog postLucky Gods' visit to Enoshima, ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1869
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Blog postWhen The Saints Go Marching In
We are trav'ling in the footsteps
Of those who've gone before
But we'll all be reunited (but if we stand reunited)
On a new and sunlit shore (then a new world is in store)
O when the saints go marching in
When the saints go marching in
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine
And when the sun refuse (begi -
Blog postFree download "L'Inverno e il Re Triste, una favola", Italian Edition; Free e-book, free download on Amazon Kindle
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Intertwined with the tantalizing, never-ending quest for a man's own roots and sense of self, the novel narrates the mysterious, epic story of the ancient people of the Alps, the untold history of mythical Rhaetia: a land largely identified with the Rhaetian Alps, a country that in 600 BC comprised what is today’s central and south-west Switzerland, Grisons and Ticino, Liechtenstein, the entire Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria, Valte -
Blog postVor dem Gesetz (Before the Law), by Franz Kafka, translated in English, with Original Text in GermanFrom "The Tales of Franz Kafka: English Translation With Original Text In German," available as e-book on Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, on NOOK Book, on Kobo, and as printed, traditional edition through Amazon and Lulu.
Before the Law
Before the law stands a doorkeeper. A countryman comes to this doorkeeper and asks for permission to be granted access to the law. But the -
Blog postFrom "Vincenzo Cardarelli: The Forgotten amongst the Great. A Collection of the Best Poems by Vincenzo Cardarelli, Translated in English," available as e-book on Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, on NOOK Book, on Kobo, and as printed, traditional edition through Lulu. October (Ottobre)
Once, it was in Summer,
it was at that fire, at those ardors,
that my imagination awakened.
I incline now to -
Blog postThe following translation of "Vagito" (Baby Wailing) by Giovanni Pascoli is from the book "The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli: Translated in English, with Original Italian Text," published by LiteraryJoint Press (2017). Also available as Amazon ebook (Free on Kindle Unlimited!) and on Kobo.
Baby Wailing Mommy...white, on a bed that is white,
you sleep. Who was that on your face composed that satisfied sorrow and that tired sm -
Blog postGabriele D’Annunzio: The Collection of Poems in English. The most comprehensive English translation of the poetry of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Available as eBook on Amazon Kindle and Kobo, and as printed edition on Amazon and Lulu.
The Shepherds
September, let’s go. It is time to migrate.
Now in the land of Abruzzi my shepherds
leave the pens and take it to the sea:
they descend to the wild Adr -
Blog postSolomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII
In London, in early June of the year 1929, the rare book dealer Joseph Cartaphilus, of Smyrna, offered the princess de Lucinge the six quarto minor volumes (1715-1720) of Pope’s Iliad. The princess purchased them; when she took possession of them, she exch -
Blog postFrom "The Tales of Franz Kafka: English Translation With Original Text In German," available as e-book on AmazonKindle, on Kobo, and as printed, traditional edition through Amazon and Lulu.
Resolutions To rise from a miserable mood, even if you have to do it by sheer strength of will, should be easy. I force myself out of my chair, stride around the table, move a bit my head and neck, make my eyes sparkle, tighten the muscles a -
Blog postThe following translation of "X August" (X Agosto) by Giovanni Pascoli is from the book "The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli: Translated in English, with Original Italian Text," published by LiteraryJoint Press (2017). Also available as Amazon ebook (Free on Kindle Unlimited!) and on Kobo.
X of August
Saint Laurent, I do know why so many
stars in the tranquil air
blaze and fall, why so much w -
Blog postTHE party of sportsmen spent the night in a peasant's hut on some newly mown hay. The moon peeped in at the window; from the street came the mournful wheezing of a concertina; from the hay came a sickly sweet, faintly troubling scent. The sportsmen talked about dogs, about women, about first love, and about snipe. After all the ladies of their acquaintance had been picked to pieces, and hundreds of stories had been told, the stoutest of the sportsmen, who looked in the darkness like a hay
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Blog postFrom "The Tales of Franz Kafka: English Translation With Original Text In German," available as e-book on AmazonKindle, on Kobo, and as printed, traditional edition through Amazon and Lulu.
Die Abweisung
Wenn ich einem schönen Mädchen begegne und sie bitte: »Sei so gut, komm mit mir« und sie stumm vorübergeht, so meint sie damit:"Du bist kein Herzog mit fliegendem Namen, kein breiter -
Blog postJuly and the Night
I breathe Turgenev -"... In the pure dry air there is a scent
of wormwood, rye in blossom, and buckwheat;even an hour before nightfall there is no moisture
in the air. It is for such weather that the farmer longs, for harvesting his wheat..."
The end of a glorious July day.In the secretive orchard of my ancestors,
Crouched at the foot of a scrawny, old pear tree,
I recollected all my past, long gone Summers,And wondere -
Blog postPicture of the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888 - 1970)
The most comprehensive English translation of the work of Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888 – 1970,) the leading representative of the experimental literary movement called Hermeticism, or Hermetic poetry. This edition includes poems from all of his major collections: "Porto Sepolto (1916,) “L'allegria di naufragi” (1919,)"L'allegria" (1931,) “Sentimento del tempo” (1933,) and "Il dolore," (1947.)Available as ebook as&nbs -
Blog postGabriele D’Annunzio: The Collection of Poems in English. The most comprehensive English translation of the poetry of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Available as eBook on Amazon Kindle and Kobo, and as printed edition on Amazon and Lulu.
The Rain in the Pinewood
Be silent. At the edgeof the wood I do not hearthe human words you say;I hear newer wordsspoken by droplets and leavesfar away. Listen. It rains from the scattered clouds.It rains on the briny, burnedtamar -
Blog postThe novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The hammer banged reveille on the rail outside camp HQ at five o'clock as always. Time to get up. -
Blog postPortrait of Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij
THE GRAND INQUISITOR
By Feodor Dostoevsky (Translation by H.P. Blavatsky)
[The following is an extract from M. Dostoevsky's celebrated novel, The Brothers Karamazov, the last publication from the pen of the great Russian novelist, who died a few months ago, just as the concluding chapters appeared in print. Dostoevsky is beginning to be recognized as one of the ablest and profoundest among Russian writers. His characters a -
Blog postThe Devil and Anti-Christ, from The Last Judgment by Luca Signorelli (c. 1450-1502)
A Short Story of the Anti-ChristFrom "Three Conversations"
(published 1900)by Vladimir SolovievVladimir Soloviev, 1853-1900
Pan-Mongolism! The name is wild,
Yet it pleases my ear greatly,
As if it were full of forebodings
Of the glorious providence of God.LADY - Where does this motto come from?MR. Z. - I think it is the work of the author himself.LADY - Well, we are l -
Blog postThe Truth will Set You Free -- So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”…
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace an -
Blog postFishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières) Van Gogh - Angler und Boote an der Pont de Clichy. Vincent van Gogh, 1887, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
From "Vincenzo Cardarelli: The Forgotten amongst the Great. A Collection of the Best Poems by Vincenzo Cardarelli, Translated in English," available as e-book on Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, on NOOK Book, on Kobo, and as printed, traditional edition through Lulu.
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Blog postThe allegory of the cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates.Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all, for he can perceive the true form of realit
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Blog postFree download "L'Inverno e il Re Triste, una favola", Italian Edition; Free e-book, free download on Amazon Kindle
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Blog postThe following translation of "Vagito" ("Baby Wailing") by Giovanni Pascoli is from the book "The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli: Translated in English, with Original Italian Text," published by LiteraryJoint Press (2017). Also available as Amazon ebook (Free on Kindle Unlimited!) and on Kobo.
Baby Wailing
Mummy...white on the bed that is white
you sleep. Who was that on your face composed
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Blog postToday, Umberto Saba (pseudonym of Umberto Poli, 1883–1957) is widely recognized as one of the most prominent European poets of the 20th century. His verses, tinged with melancholy and filled with compassion for the world's misery, are expressed in a language characterized by a sophisticated simplicity: light and rich of everyday words, yet musical and profound in poetic effect.
Umberto Saba: the Collection of Poems. Umberto Saba's Poetry Translated in English. Umberto Saba: "Il
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