Alessandro Baruffi

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About Alessandro Baruffi

Alessandro Baruffi (b. 1973) is a writer, poet, historian and researcher in the fields of American, Germanic, and Russian literature. Beyond the literary realm, he is an outdoor enthusiast, a lover of nature, and an advocate of healthy lifestyle and plant-based nutrition.

His published works include: "Adua Mar" (2000, Poems), "Icarus" (2006, Poems), "Jersey Blues" (2007, Poems), "24 Racconti" (2008, Short Stories), "The Poems of Trieste and Five Poems for the Game of Soccer" (2013, Translation, Umberto Saba), "Lunga è la Notte" (2015, Novel), "The Forgotten amongst the Great: a Collection of the Best Poems Translated in English" (2015, Translation, Vincenzo Cardarelli), "The Tales of Franz Kafka" (2016, Translation, Franz Kafka), "Le Poesie di Robert Frost nella Traduzione Italiana" (2016, Translation, Robert Frost), "Midnight 30, American Poems" (2016, Poems), "The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (2017, Translation, Giovanni Pascoli), "Montale's Essential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale in English" (2017, Translation, Eugenio Montale), "Giuseppe Ungaretti, the Master of Hermeticism, Translated In English" (2018, Translation, Giuseppe Ungaretti), "Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Collection of Poems in English" (2019, Translation, Gabriele D'Annunzio), and "Umberto Saba: the Collection of Poems. Umberto Saba's Poetry Translated in English" (2020, Translation, Umberto Saba).

He has translated for international literary magazines various authors, including: Franz Kafka, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Antônio Álvares de Azevedo, Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Alfonsina Storni, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Marina Tsvetaeva, Konstantin Simonov, Umberto Saba, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Eugenio Montale, Giosuè Carducci, and Ada Negri.

Website: www.baruffi.me

Biographical notes -- I grew up on the sunny hillsides of the Rhaetian Alps mountains in Italy, where I spent a musing youth. Soon after graduating in Economics at the University of Milan, I set off to see the world, dwelling in London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and in the USA - in NYC, Princeton, and Philadelphia - working in the Online Publishing industry with The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Group.

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Montale's Essential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale in English Sep 15, 2017

by Alessandro Baruffi

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Eugenio Montale’s idiosyncratic poetry has challenged many English-language translators because of its obscure, often cryptic language. This essential anthology of Montale's work, the latest and most comprehensive English translation of this century, features poems from his masterpiece collections "Ossi di Seppia" (Cuttlefish Bones, 1925,) "Le Occasioni" (The Occasions, 1939,) and "Xenia” (1966.)

The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli: Translated in English, with Original Italian Text Apr 2, 2017

by Alessandro Baruffi , Giovanni Pascoli

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The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, Translated in English, next to their Original Italian Text. Giovanni Pascoli (b. at San Mauro Romagna, December 31, 1855, d. at Barga April 6, 1912) was a classical scholar and one of the greatest European poets of his times. The work of Giovanni Pascoli is considered the beginning of modern Italian poetry. Amidst the thick fog, in the rough seas and the rugged shores of a country divided by historic, cultural, and linguistic barriers, Pascoli became the lighthouse to point to, in order to find a common language and a way to unity.

In appearance, he often simply spoke of “little things:” bucolic scenes, small images of nature, peasants and their everyday chores; even animals, birds, plants, and flowers with mystical names found their cozy spot under the beaming sun of Pascoli’s marvelous pen.

Franz Kafka’s Stories: English Translation with Original Text in German (German Edition) Feb 22, 2018

by Franz Kafka , Alessandro Baruffi

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This is the most comprehensive and recent translation of Franz Kafka's stories, including short and long tales: the most renowned, as well as many that are less known to the broader audience. With all previous major English translations dating as far back as well before World War Two, the refreshing effort to bring Kafka anew to today's readers was long overdue. Rendered with absolute faithfulness to the original German text (also presented in this book), and with a language that is fully comprehensible to the twenty first century English speaking audience, the tantalizing modernity of Kafka's work compels us to delve into our sense of annihilation, the one of the individual before the overwhelming mechanisms of power, existence, and social relations.

The Tales of Franz Kafka: English Translation with Original Text in German (German Edition) Feb 20, 2016

by Franz Kafka , Alessandro Baruffi

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Giuseppe Ungaretti, the Master of Hermeticism, Translated In English Jan 25, 2018

by Alessandro Baruffi

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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.)

Gabriele D’Annunzio: The Collection of Poems in English Sep 20, 2019

by Alessandro Baruffi , Gabriele D'Annunzio

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The most comprehensive English translation of the poetry of Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, Duke of Gallese (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), was an Italian poet, journalist, playwright and soldier during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life from 1914 to 1924. He was often referred to under the epithets Il Vate ("the Poet") or Il Profeta ("the Prophet").

Umberto Saba: the Collection of Poems. Umberto Saba's Poetry Translated in English Mar 1, 2020

by Alessandro Baruffi

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Today, 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.

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Midnight 30, American Poems Jun 27, 2016

by Alessandro Baruffi

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Midnight thirty: half-hour past "Geisterstunde," as it is still called in the broody hillsides hamlets of inner, rural Pennsylvania. In the deep stillness of the night, the tongue is loose, the eye quick, the ear alert, and the mind finally conducive to grasp all that in daylight is hidden. It is only at that time that truth is said, or whispered...

In this surprising work of modern American literature, like a shimmering, wild creek under the full moonlight, the vein of poetry taps into the inexhaustible resources and riches of the land, and runs with inspiration and wisdom.

Vincenzo Cardarelli: The Forgotten amongst the Great: A Collection of the Best Poems Translated in English Jun 21, 2015

by Alessandro Baruffi

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Vincenzo Cardarelli (pseudonym of Nazareno Caldarelli, 1887-1959) journalist, poet, and literary critic, led a solitary, dignified existence, from a humble background, through self-taught education and innumerable peregrinations, until his final days in poverty and loneliness. He stood and sought for all that a true artist and intellectual has to stand and seek for: the uncompromising authenticity of art.

Until now, with the sole exception of a few poems translated by the great Irish poet Desmond O'Grady in the late 1950's, the work of Vincenzo Cardarelli had remained precluded to the English speaking world and the international audience at large. The publication of this extensive collection will finally disclose the doors to one of the most prominent, yet still relatively unexplored, Italian and European poet of the twentieth century.

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Jersey Blues Selected Poems Mar 9, 2018

by Alessandro Baruffi

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Like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country—always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps—infallibly enough I would always return to my dwelling in Princeton. Many a time the lonely night was devoted to the contemplation of the moon of New Jersey, as I licked the wounds of a sore soul. I always wondered, how different that pale, ghostly circle of a moon was, from the one I encountered elsewhere above the magnificent land that I had been scampering about, and from the lost moon of my childhood. Yet, with adulthood—or maturity—seeing at last the rise and fall of earthling matters, I would flinch, my heart recoiling, as from something unpleasant. Thus, through the jaundiced, estranged buoy in the sky, I would recall past memories, and hold out my quivering hand to reach over to the always-receding mysteries of existence.

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Lunga è la Notte (Italian Edition) Nov 11, 2015

by Alessandro Baruffi , Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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Opera lucidamente tormentosa e di complessa collocazione nel panorama della letteratura italiana contemporanea, romanzo a un tempo psicologico e storico, “Lunga è la Notte” ripercorre liberamente le vicende italiche dalle guerre d'Africa ai giorni nostri, nelle memorie del soldato e ingegnere Zeno N., tracciandone l'eroica, laboriosa e terrena battaglia contro il male oscuro e la catartica ricerca del riscatto ultimo.

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24 Racconti (Italian Edition) Jan 24, 2015

by Alessandro Baruffi

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Ampia raccolta di racconti brevi, opera prima, "24 Racconti" è il frutto ambizioso dell'attività giovanile dello scrittore, focalizzata in particolare sui temi dell'inettitudine alla vita e all'amore, l'incomunicabilità, la solitudine, i meccanismi di repressione socio-individuale, l'inesorabilità della morte e il significato dell'immortalità. Da segnalare, fra gli altri, due testi: "Davanti a una tela di Rembrandt", che indaga il significato della legge e, in senso più ampio, dell'esistenza dell'individuo nel contesto dei suoi simili, e "L'eden", la storia di un'iniziazione e, forse, di una caduta. Altri racconti esemplari: "Il postulante", "Il carceriere" e "Indiani".

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