The Centaur – by Leopoldo Alas, also known as Clarín, in. El señor y los demas son cuentos – 1902 – Translated from Spanish 🇪🇸 into English 🏴 by Enzo Martinelli ©️ Enzo Martinelli 2025 Violeta Pagés, daughter of a Catalan freethinker, a wealthy industrialist, was educated, if that was education, until the age of fifteen, as the devil would have it, and from the … Continue reading The Centaur, by Leopoldo Alas
Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright, novelist, and short story writer, is widely celebrated for his profound exploration of identity, reality, and human psychology. Despite his substantial influence on 20th-century literature and drama, much of his work, especially his short stories, remains underexplored in the English-speaking world. This new translation of a selection of Pirandello’s short stories aims to bridge this gap, offering readers … Continue reading Short Stories for a Year, by Luigi Pirandello 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸
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 🖋📓🇺🇸
The New Dress Il vestito nuovo – from the short story collection “Summer Sun”, by Grazia Deledda, 1933 Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2025 – Enzo Martinelli For eleven and a half months of the year, Madame Lea would save up to the penny, even doing a little cheating on household expenses, only to be robbed, once in a while, by the … Continue reading The New Dress, by Grazia Deledda 🇮🇹✒️🏴
Today, June 5, marks the 127th anniversary of the birth of Federico García Lorca — poet, playwright, visionary. To celebrate it, we publish the expanded edition of our ebook with the complete English translation of his two great posthumous collections: Dark Love Sonnets and Diván del Tamarit. Verses written in the fire of his last years, never published during his life, never forgotten. If you haven’t met Lorca in English yet, this is the right time. Continue reading Dark Love Sonnets, by Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴
Villes – Les Illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud – 1873 – with translations from 🇫🇷 French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli Ce sont des villes ! C’est un peuple pour qui se sont montés ces Alleghanys et ces Libans de rêve ! Des chalets de cristal et de bois qui se meuvent sur des rails et des poulies … Continue reading Villes, de Rimbaud 💡✒️🇫🇷
Walt Whitman è stato un poeta americano e un umanista. È considerato uno dei poeti più influenti degli Stati Uniti. La sua poesia era un riflesso dei suoi pensieri e sentimenti sulla democrazia, la natura, la sessualità, la morte e molti altri argomenti. Mentre commemoriamo l’anniversario della nascita di Walt Whitman, è un momento per riflettere sul profondo impatto che questa figura imponente ha avuto … Continue reading Foglie d’erba, di Walt Whitman 🇺🇸✒️🇮🇹
Isolde’s Death – de Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, de Horacio Quiroga – 1917 – Translated from Spanish 🇪🇸 into English 🏴 by Enzo Martinelli – Stories of Love, Madness and Death ©️ Enzo Martinelli 2025 The first act of Tristan and Isolde was coming to an end. Tired of the agitation of the day, I remained in my seat, quite content … Continue reading Isolde’s Death, by Horacio Quiroga
A creature cries Una creatura piange – from the short story collection “Summer Sun”, by Grazia Deledda, 1933 Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2025 – Enzo Martinelli I had not gone to church for a long time: and that time I went for a seemingly practical reason. My son was taking part in a very important competition, on the outcome of which … Continue reading A Creature Cries, by Grazia Deledda
Chuva oblíqua, by Fernando Pessoa – in Orpheu 2., 1914 – translated into English 🏴 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli Ilumina-se a igreja por dentro da chuva deste dia,E cada vela que se acende é mais chuva a bater na vidraça…Alegra-me ouvir a chuva porque ela é o templo estar aceso,E as vidraças da igreja vistas de fora são o … Continue reading Chuva oblíqua II, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
