Able Muse - giacomo leopardi https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/1538/1538? en To Sylvia https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/giacomo-leopardi/to-sylvia? <p>&nbsp;</p> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;A Silvia&rdquo;</em></p> <p>Sylvia, do you still remember<br> that time of your mortal life<br> when beauty shined <br> from your . . . <br /> . . . . . . . . . .</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/giacomo-leopardi/to-sylvia?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/giacomo-leopardi/to-sylvia?#comments Poetry Translation a silvia giacomo leopardi italian poem poetry translation to sylvia translation v17 wendy sloan Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:25:23 +0000 Alex Pepple 1160 at https://www.ablemuse.com Giacomo Leopardi https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/giacomo-leopardi? <p>Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837), poet, translator, essayist, and philosopher, is considered one of the greatest Italian poets, together with Dante and Petrarch. He grew up in the small town of Recanati, a conservative backwater in Italy&rsquo;s Marche region. His parents were reactionary nobility. His mother was cold, stingy, and committed to not giving Leopardi any money. Besides having squandered much of the family fortune on gambling, his father had spent considerable sums amassing an enormous library of some 20,000 volumes.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/giacomo-leopardi?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/giacomo-leopardi?#comments Bios author bio giacomo leopardi italian poem poems poetry poetry translation translation v17 wendy sloan Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:59:02 +0000 Alex Pepple 1159 at https://www.ablemuse.com Wendy Sloan https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/wendy-sloan? <p>Wendy Sloan practiced labor law with the firm of Hall &amp; Sloan before returning to poetry. Her work has been published in journals including <em>Measure, Mezzo Cammin, The Raintown Review, Blue Unicorn, Big City Lit </em>and <em>Umbrella.</em> Sloan&rsquo;s translations have appeared, or are forthcoming, in <em>The Chimaera </em>and <em>Measure. </em>She was a finalist in the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Competition.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/wendy-sloan?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/wendy-sloan?#comments Bios author bio giacomo leopardi italian poem poetry poetry translation translation v17 wendy sloan Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:45:07 +0000 Alex Pepple 1158 at https://www.ablemuse.com