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Journal of Italian Translation
Fabio Scotto’s Topographic Poems: Writing
Places
Translated by Barbara Carle
Barbara Carle is a poet, translator, and critic. She is author of
New Life, Gradiva, 2006 and Don’t Waste My Beauty/Non guastare la
mia bellezza, Caramanica, 2006 as well as of numerous articles on
Italian and French Poetry. She has translated many contemporary
Italian poets (including Rodolfo Di Biasio’s Altre contingenze/Other
contingencies, Caramanica/Gradiva, 2002). Carle is currently working
on the poetry of Gianfranco Palmery. An article on Umberto
Saba and painter Vittorio Bolaffio is forthcoming in the Rivista di
letteratura italiana, 2008.
Fabio Scotto was born in La Spezia (Italy) in 1959 and lives in
Varese (near Milan). He is the author of eight volumes of poetry: Il
grido viola (Edizioni del Leone, 1988), Il bosco di Velate (Edizioni del
Leone, 1991), Piume/Plumes/Federn (Editions En Forêt/Verlag Im
Wald, 1997), La dolce ferita (Caramanica, 1999), Genetliaco (Passigli,
2000), Voix de la vue (Editions Hôtel Continental, Plancoët, 2002),
L’intoccabile (Passigli, 2004) and L’ivre mort (Editions Trames, Barriac,
2007). His poems have been translated into French, German, Spanish,
Galician, Bulgarian, and other languages. Professor of French
and Translation at the University of Bergamo, he has authored critical
and theoretical works, such as Le Neveu de Rameau di Denis Diderot
(Coopli Iulm, 1992, reprint: Arcipelago Edizioni, 2008), Bernard Noël:
il corpo del verbo (Crocetti, 1995), La nascita del concetto moderno di
traduzione (with G. Catalano, Armando, 2001), and translations of
Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Yves Bonnefoy
and Bernard Noël. He is currently preparing the Mondadori
(Meridiani) Edition of Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry and recently edited
the proceedings of the Conference held at Cerisy on the work of
Bernard Noël (Bernard Noel: le corps du verbe, Colloque de Cerisy sous
la direction de Fabio Scotto, Lyon, ENS éditions, Collection Signes,
2008). His new collection of pems has just appeared and is titled:
Bocca segreta, (foreword by Francesco De Nicola) Passigli, 2008.
Scotto is a specialist of French literature and translation. He is
poet, critic and translator, equally at ease in the three fields to which