In paths untrodden – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Spanish and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 – Enzo Martinelli In paths untrodden,In the growth by margins of pond-waters,Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,From all the standards hitherto publish’d, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,Clear to … Continue reading In Paths Untrodden, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
Enfance III – Les illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud – 1886 – with translations from French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli Au bois il y a un oiseau, son chant vous arrête et vous fait rougir. Il y a une horloge qui ne sonne pas. Il y a une fondrière avec un nid de bêtes blanches. Il y a une cathédrale qui … Continue reading Enfance III, by Rimbaud 🌊✒️🇫🇷
from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Spanish and Italian by Enzo Martinelli When I should be asleep to mine own voiceIn telling thee how much thy love’s my dream,I find me listening to myself, the noiseOf my words othered in my hearing them.Yet wonder not: this is the poet’s soul.I could not tell thee well of how I … Continue reading When I should be asleep to mine own voice, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
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
Enfance II – Les illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud – 1886 – with translations from French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli C’est elle, la petite morte, derrière les rosiers. — La jeune maman trépassée descend le perron. — La calèche du cousin crie sur le sable. — Le petit frère — (il est aux Indes!) là, devant le couchant, sur le pré … Continue reading Enfance II, by Rimbaud 🌊✒️🇫🇷
from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Spanish ans Italian by Enzo Martinelli When I do think my meanest line shall beMore in Time’s use than my creating whole,That future eyes more clearly shall feel meIn this inked page than in my direct soul;When I conjecture put to make me seeingGood readers of me in some aftertime,Thankful to some … Continue reading When I do think my meanest line shall be, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
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 🌿🖋📖
Presentation of Federico García Lorca’s poem “Romance de la luna, luna” in original Spanish version, with translations into English, Italian, French and Portuguese by Enzo Martinelli. Continue reading Romance de la luna, luna, de Garcia Lorca 🖋📃🇪🇸
from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Italian by Enzo Martinelli 🇬🇧 Like to a ship that storms urge on its course Like to a ship that storms urge on its course, By its own trials our soul is surer made. The very things that make the voyage worse Do make it better; its peril is its aid. And, … Continue reading Like to a ship, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Italian by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2020 Enzo Martinelli Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only, Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself, Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs, Not in many an oath and promise broken, Not in my … Continue reading Not heaving, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
