Le piano que baise une main frêle – Romances sans paroles – Paul Verlaine – 1874 – with translations from 🇫🇷 French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli Le piano que baise une main frêleLuit dans le soir rose et gris vaguement,Tandis qu’avec un très léger bruit d’aileUn air bien vieux, bien faible et bien charmantRôde discret, épeuré … Continue reading Le piano que baise une main frêle, de Verlaine 🌊✒️🇫🇷
The Disciple – Oscar Wilde – Poems in Prose – 1894 – translated from English 🏴 into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea, having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the hill into the valley. For he had business in his own home.And kneeling on the … Continue reading The Master, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖
The world below the brine – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Sea-drif – 1892 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli The world below the brine,Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,Different colors, pale gray and … Continue reading The world below the brine, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
Translation into English and critical analysis by Enzo Martinelli of the poem by Arthur Rimbaud “Après le déluge”, also with original French text and AI generated imagery. Continue reading After the flood, by Arthur Rimbaud 🇫🇷✒️🏴
O segredo do bonzo – de Papeis avulsos, por Machado de Assis – 1882 – Translated from Brazilian 🇧🇷 into English 🏴 by Enzo Martinelli ©️ Enzo Martinelli 2025 Earlier I told you about what happened in this city of Fuchéu, capital of the kingdom of Bungo, with Father Francisco, and how the king dealt with Fucarandono and other bonzes, who had the right to … Continue reading The secret of the bonzo, by Machado de Assis ✒️📃🇧🇷
Mother’s Spirit Lo spirito della madre – from the short story collection “Summer Sun”, by Grazia Deledda, 1933 Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2025 – Enzo Martinelli In order for dry saline-jodic inhalations to succeed more effectively, during their action it is good to chat, indeed possibly to sing, and better yet, with perfect license from the nursing neighbor, to yawn without … Continue reading Mother’s Spirit, by Grazia Deledda
Na arca – de Papeis avulsos, por Machado de Assis – 1882 – Translated from Brazilian 🇧🇷 into English 🏴 by Enzo Martinelli ©️ Enzo Martinelli 2025 Then Noah said to his sons Japheth, Shem and Ham: – “Let us go out of the ark, according to the will of the Lord, we and our wives and all the animals. The ark must stop at … Continue reading In the Ark, by Machado de Assis ✒️📃🇧🇷
Oscar Wilde’s prose poem The Disciple, from his 1894 collection Poems in Prose, is one of his most compact and philosophically piercing works. In a mere handful of lines, Wilde inverts the relationship between beauty and the beholder: when the nymphs mourn Narcissus by the pool, they reveal that they wept not for him, but for themselves — for the reflection of their own beauty they once glimpsed in his eyes. Wilde distills here the paradox of admiration: the admirer, too, is seeking a mirror.
This post presents the original English text alongside an Italian translation (Il Discepolo) and a Spanish translation (El Discípulo), offering readers a trilingual encounter with Wilde’s ironic lyricism. Whether you come to Wilde through his plays, his fairy tales, or his aphorisms, these prose poems reveal a writer at his most elliptical and most profound. Continue reading The Disciple, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖
These I singing in spring – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1892 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli These I singing in spring collect for lovers,(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)Collecting I traverse the … Continue reading These I singing in spring, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
Fifty Cents Cinquanta centesimi – from the short story collection “Summer Sun”, by Grazia Deledda, 1933 Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2025 – Enzo Martinelli In a beautiful novella by Gorki there is a hungry wanderer, who in the light, fluffy clouds on the horizon of the steppe, sees steaming trays full of exquisite foodstuffs; but when in his delirium he stretches out … Continue reading Fifty Cents, by Grazia Deledda
