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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 -
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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
Saturday, March 14, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT through Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 11:59 PM PDT -
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
that satisfied sorrow and that tired smile? -
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 -
Blog postJohn William Waterhouse, the "The Decameron"
The Decameron, sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived of -
Blog postErmes was born in Colloredo di Monte Albano, Friaul. He was educated at Medici's court in Florence as page of Greatduke Ferdinando II de' Medici, and entered the service of Emperor Ferdinand III during the Thirty Years War as a Cuirassiers' Officier, at the orders of his uncle, Field Marschall Rudolf von Colloredo Mels und Wallsee, Governor of Prague, of the Republic of Venice as a Cavalry Colonel and Emperor Leopold I. In the latter part of his life Ermes returned to his homeland to focus on wr
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Blog postHow to Be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers
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Blog postEdvard Munch - Night in Nice (1891)
February Evening
February Evening.The moon rises.In the street still it isdaylight, an evening that quickly falls. Indifferent youngsters hugged one another;skidding to aimless destinations. And it is the thoughtof death that, ultimately, helps to live on.
Original text in Italian:
Sera di febbraio
(Umberto Saba, da "Il canzoniere, Ultime cose", 1935-1943)Sera di -
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 -
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.
Der Ausflug ins Gebirge
"Ich weiß nicht", rief ich ohne Klang, "ich weiß ja nicht. Wenn niemand kommt, dann kommt eben niemand. Ich habe niemandem etwas Böses getan, niemand hat mir etwas Bös -
Blog postEdvard Munch, Melancholy (1894)
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.
Ruthless Memory (Memoria spietata)
Oh, ruthless memory, what have you doneof my village?A village of ghostswhere nothing has chang -
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.
Consolation
Don’t cry anymore. Is back your beloved sonto your house. He is tired of lying.Come; let's go out! It's time to blossom again.You are too pale: the face is almost a fleur-de-lis.
Come; let's go out. The abandoned gard -
Blog postAnton Čechov in Melichovo
IT was a sunny August midday as, in company with a Russian prince who had come down in the world, I drove into the immense so-called Shabelsky pine-forest where we were intending to look for woodcocks. In virtue of the part he plays in this story my poor prince deserves a detailed description. He was a tall, dark man, still youngish, though already somewhat battered by life; with long moustaches like a police captain's; with prominent black eyes, and with t -
Blog postThe Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia, a well preserved former residence of Edgar Allan Poe.
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATHby Edgar Allan Poe
(1842)THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body -
Blog postEdvard Munch. A ploughed Field (‘Pløyemark‘), 1916 (private collection).
"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 also on Kobo.
November
Gem-like is the air, so bright the sunthat you seek the blooms of the apricot,and the bitter scent of the hawthornlingers in your heart.
But dried-up is the haw, a -
Blog postTO MADAME M. V. KISELYOV.
BABKINO,
June, 1886.
LOVE UNRIPPLED (A NOVEL) Part I.
It was noon.... The setting sun with its crimson, fiery rays gilded
the tops of pines, oaks, and fir-trees.... It was still; only in the
air the birds were singing, and in the distance a hungry wolf howled
mournfully.... The driver turned round and said:
“More snow has fallen, sir.”
“What?”
“I say, more sn -
Blog postCart with Black Ox, or The Ox-Cart (1884) by Vincent van Gogh
The Ox
Through vague haze, at the thin riverlooks the ox, with big eyes: in the pasturethat recedes, to an ever-farther searun the waters of a cerulean river;
they magnify in his eyes, in the dust ofthe light, the willow and the alder;on the grass a herd of sheep passes by little by littleand it seems the herd of the ancient God:
wide wings conjure up rapacious sketches in the air; silent chimeras float,
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