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Japanese; this translation came out as earlyas 1911, Later, Shevchenko was translated by theJapanese poet Macuba. Serious efforts to translateShevchenko into that language have appeared in J a ­pan in recent times, but -we do not have any preciseinformation about them.The first translator of Shevchenko into Hunga r i a n was a Hungarian of Ukrainian descent, H.Sztripszky, an official of the Budapest National Museumand later a councell or of the Ministry. He publishedhis translations in the weekly Vasarnapiujsn.g (Sunday News) in 1914, and two years latercame out with more translations, prepared in collaborationwith V. Varga, in the newspaper Ukrdnia.The most masterful translations of Shevchenko intoHungarian came from the pen of the well knownHungarian poet Zempleni Arpad (1865-1919), whoseuntimely death cut short bis work on a large volumeof Shevchenko in Hungarian. Such a collection, consistingof 121 items, was prepared much later byanother Hungarian, Wedres Sandor; it came out underthe name of Kobzos (Kobzar) in 1953.A Ukrainian concert singer and writer, MladaLypovec’ka (Tais Belman) was responsible for thefirst translations of Shevchenko into Italian. In1919 she published a series of renditions of the poetand essays about him in a Ukrainian-sponsored periodicalLa voce dcll’Vcraina (The Voice of Ukraine).Wjth the help of the Italian writer Cesare Meano,she prepared a large selection from the poet’sverses in Italian but circumstances permitted herto publish only a small fraction of her work in thejournal Ucraina. At the time of this writing, the world'famous scholar of Slavic languages and literature,professor at the University of Rome, Etore LoGatto, is preparing a volume of his translations ofShevchenko.Flemish does not have any substantial body23