Ernesto Livorni

Credentials: PhD, University of Connecticut

Position title: Professor of Italian

Email: elivorni@wisc.edu

Phone: 262-6048

Address:
752 Van Hise Hall

EDUCATION

PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut, 1990

SPECIALTIES

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.

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