In 2023, I continued to publish and present on the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto, as well as contributing to book reviews: one on Dante and cinema, and another on Mussolini and theatre.
I opened up a new research project on Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, an Italian explorer whose search for the sources of the Mississippi River in 1823 brought him into contact with the Dakota and Ojibwe in their lands that would become the state of Minnesota.
Articles:
"Andrea Zanzotto." The Literary Encyclopedia. Online publication from the United Kingdom. Published online in 2010. Revised in January 2023.
“’Tripping’ with Zanzotto: Poetry, Plants and Psychedelics.” Rivista di Studi Italiani Anno 41, n. 2 (2023): 245-270.
“’Duty Free’: Notes on the English of Andrea Zanzotto.” Semicerchio: Rivista di poesia comparata LXVIII (2023/1): 24-32.
Reviews:
Speranza, Paolo. Dante e il cinema (Gremese Editore 2021). Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Vol. 11: January 2023: 14-16.
Gaborik, Patricia. Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2021. X-XII. Pp. 312. PSA: the Journal of the Pirandello Society of America Volume XXXIV (2022): 90-92. [Published in 2023.
Invited Lectures and Presentations:
Invited Presentation, online, “Um Diålogo sobre Andrea Zanzotto e Suas Traduçoes,” with Professor Patricia Peterle, Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Portuguese and English, Brazil, September 12, 2023.
Invited Presentation, “Beltrami’s ‘Trans-Atlantic Promenade’: An Italian Explorer Among Native Americans in Early Minnesota,” Beltrami Bicentennial Conference, Beltrami County Historical Society, Bemidji, Minnesota, June 25th, 2023.
Invited Brown Bag Seminar, “Getting to Know Giacomo Beltrami Through His Biography and Writings,” Beltrami County Historical Society History Center, Bemidji, Minnesota, June 17th, 2023.