Chiara Salomoni
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Two poems by Chiara Salomoni
Veneto Bassano is my birthplace wherethe Dal Ponte family were born and worked on the six paintingsI counted at the Louvre years ago: true sketches of 16th-century folklife,religious works; realistic as photos. Veronese’s The Wedding Feast at Cana,in all its majesty, hangs in the room of the Mona Lisa; I turned aroundto see Tiziano’s name,…
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Two translations of Corrado Govoni
Chiara Salomoni writes: Corrado Govoni was born near Ferrara in 1884 and died near Rome in 1965. He was a prolific writer of poetry, prose and drama. Govoni joined the Futurist Movement and collaborated on Marinetti’s Notebooks but his crepuscular way of writing remained a characteristic of his poetry. He was the president of…