Books, literature, short stories, translation

The Imp of the Perverse, by Edgar Allan Poe 🖋📓🇺🇸

The Imp of the Perverse – from Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe – translated from English 🇺🇸 into Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli Considered the master of short story and the forerunner of the modern psychological thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) revolutionised fiction with a surprisingly original and innovative production. Born in Boston, Poe went through … Continue reading The Imp of the Perverse, by Edgar Allan Poe 🖋📓🇺🇸

Enzo Martinelli25/06/202517/01/20261 Comment

Books, Letteratura, literature, poesia, Poetry, translation

To a stranger, by Walt Whitman – English, with Italian and Spanish translations

Read Walt Whitman’s ‘To a Stranger’ from Leaves of Grass (Calamus, 1855) in English, with Italian and Spanish translations by Enzo Martinelli. Continue reading To a stranger, by Walt Whitman – English, with Italian and Spanish translations

Enzo Martinelli16/04/202113/09/202613 Comments

Books, Poemas, poesia, poesie, Poetry

This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

This post presents three new verse translations of Walt Whitman’s lyric poem “This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful” (1860), from Leaves of Grass — Calamus, rendered into Italian, Spanish, and French. Each translation, curated by Enzo Martinelli, attends closely to Whitman’s elegiac tone and his meditation on distant peoples and shared humanity, offering readers a comparative view of the poem across three Romance languages. Continue reading This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

Enzo Martinelli22/02/202119/05/202617 Comments