Ernesto Livorni

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Biography

Specialties and Areas of Research Interest

Ernesto Livorni is Professor of Italian Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

His scholarly publications include:

Petrarch and Petrarchism(s). Co-edited with Jelena Todorovic. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2021).

Avanguardia e tradizione: Ezra Pound e Giuseppe Ungaretti (1998) and T. S. Eliot, Montale e la modernità dantesca (2020).

Da una distanza stellare. Scritti in onore di Giovanni Sinicropi. Edited by Ernesto Livorni (2021)

He also translated into Italian and edited Ted Hughes, Cave-Birds: Un dramma alchemico della caverna (2001). He has published articles in Italian and in English on medieval, modern and contemporary Italian literature, English and American literature, Italian-American literature, and comparative literature.

Livorni is the founding editor of L’ANELLO che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature. Livorni has also published three collections of poems: Prospettiche illusioni (1977-1983) (1987) (Illusions of Perspective), Nel libro che ti diedi. Sonetti (1985-1986) (1998) (In the Book That I Gave You. Sonnets) and L’America dei Padri (2005) (The Fathers’ America, New York: Bordighera Press, 2015). His last collection Onora il Padre e la Madre (Honor Thy Father and Mother) (Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia): Aguaplano – Officina del Libro, 2015) gathers new and collected poems.

Selected Publications

Books

• The Father’s America, 2016
• Onora il Padre e la Madre: Poesie 1977-2010, 2015

Articles

• Wake and Mourning: Apollinaire and Ungaretti, 2015
• La Paura dell’Amore, ovvero, Resoconto dell’Andare oltre, 2014
• Parola Innamorata to Gruppo 93: Experimental and Avant-Garde Effervescence, 2014

Book Chapters

• Parola Innamorata to Gruppo 93: Experimental and Avant-Garde Effervescence, 2014
• Poetry, Dialogue, Silence, 2013
• The Giubbe Rosse Café in Florence: A Literary and Political Alcove from Futurism to Anti-Fascist Resistance, 2013
• Edoardo Sanguineti’s Early Poetry: Between Language and Ideology, 2013
• Ungaretti i Montale: angoixa pel no-res i nostàlgia de l’absolut, 2013
• Migration to Exile: The Paradox of Exodus, 2013
• American Writers in Rome during the Risorgimento, 2013