Journal of Italian Translation

Adria Bernardi/Raffaello Baldini
what’s he going to do up at Poggio?
I wouldn’t go up there either, up on that cliff,
and his wife, she’s your cousin, or what?
she wanted to go up there?
well then that’s a different story,
if she likes it up there, it’s because of the grandmother?
his mother, I know, she lives up there,
I understand completely, with three kids, a grandmother,
now that’s something you can count on, why wouldn’t it be?
but, certainly, even for them, it’s still a big change,
but they’re young, then, yes, it’s true, you do feel good up there,
even at Poggio,
up there, the air’s better,
I’m going to Nazario’s,
you too, drop by and see me,
they only time we see each other is by accident,
Caterina, where are you going?
you’re in such a hurry, to the hospital, who do you have in the
hospital?
Gianni? you’re related, a little distant,
you’re children of cousins, or no? how is he?
which I think, in my opinion that is a sickness,
he, it’s been two years, since Yole died,
there was a big change, he’s not himself anymore,
he’s never in the shop,
he’s always at the cafe, sweets, it’s gluttony,
shots, which with that, he’s a heavy man to start with,
he’s going to kill himself like that,
but you’re saying what’ I’m saying, it’s her,
it’s his wife, Franca, who was at fault,
she, with Gianni, she never understood him he’s
a little prickly, yes, nothing’s ever right
but he’s not mean, you have to know how to take him,
you can’t always be contradicting him,
you can’t always argue,
then afterwards, little by little,
a Yole shows up,
which even there, then, Franca was wrong,
all the scenes,
I understand, yes, letting off steam, but certain things,
you can’t go around town saying,
he hadn’t even moved out, yes,
he did that for the boy, yes, but however in any case
they’re together, you, now, stay another second,
how can I say it, to stop trying,
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