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Its makes its call heard
in an eerie voice,
flying in the night air.
Then its mockers keep quiet
and hide behind a shelter of leaves.
But the acts’ sequence is brief,
nature’s theater recedes,
as the day dawns,
the owl returns to its nest,
to its humble destiny. (89)
As a conclusion, we might say that the reader will principally
be able to enjoy this book for the opportunity it provides to read a
large collection of one of the most influential contemporary Italian
poets. In addition, the translation by Banerjee renders Neri’s poetry
with such an accuracy and respect for the original that it appears
freshly regenerated. In other words, this translation accomplishes
the seemingly foremost task of every translation: to instill a new
life to the chosen text, making it alive within the new and different
linguistic and cultural horizons omnipresent in modern literature.
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Enrico Minardi, ASU
Giuseppe Quatriglio, Sicily: Island of Myths, translated into
English by Florence Russo and Gaetano Cipolla, Mineola. NY:
Legas, 112 pages.
Giuseppe Quatriglio is a well known journalist who writes
for the Giornale di Sicilia and other newspapers. He has written
numerous books on Sicilian history and on the city where he lives:
Palermo. Perhaps his most successful book on Sicily is A Thousand
Years in Sicily from the Arabs to the Bourbons, published by Legas, in
Justin Vitiello’s translation, which distinguished itself by becoming
one of the very few Sicilian books ever to be translated into Japanese.
Recently Quatriglio published a fascinating book called L’isola
dei miti, which was just translated into English by Florence Russo
and Gaetano Cipolla, with the title Sicily: Island of Myths. The book
focuses on some Sicilian characters and events that have sparked
popular imagination to the point of becoming larger than life, in-