Margherita Guidacci

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Margherita Guidacci
Born 25 April 1921(1921-04-25)
Florence, Italy
Died December 0, 1992 (aged 70)
Rome, Italy
Occupation Poet
Nationality Italian
Writing period 1980-1992
Notable work(s) Translations of Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop

Margherita Guidacci (April 25, 1921-1992), was an Italian poet born in Florence, Italy. Among her published translations are John Donne's sermons and Emily Dickinson's poetry[1]. T. S. Eliot[2] and Elizabeth Bishop are among other poets Guidacci translated into her native language.

Guidacci taught English and American Literature at the University of Macerata and the College of Maria Assunta attached to the Vatican in Rome, where she lived until her death in 1992.[3]

Contents

[edit] Published Works

[edit] Translations

  • Guidacci, Margherita (1989). A Book of Sibyls: Poems, Translated by Ruth Feldman, Rowan Tree Press. ISBN 978-0937672266. 
  • Guidacci, Margherita (April 1992). Landscape With Ruins: Selected Poetry of Margherita Guidacci, Translated by Ruth Feldman, Wayne State Univ Pr. ISBN 978-0814323526. 
  • Guidacci, Margherita (1993). In the eastern sky: Selected poems of Margherita Guidacci. Dedalus. ISBN 978-1873790229. 
  • Guidacci, Margherita (1975). Poems from Neurosuite, Translated by Marina La Palma, Kelsey St. Press. 
  • Guidacci, Margherita. Le Retable d'Issenheim. ARFUYEN. 
  • Guidacci, Margherita (Firenze 1921, Roma 1992). L'altare di Isenheim. Rusconi, Milano, 1980, Gambetti, 1997. 
  • Guidacci, Margherita. Isenheimski oltar, Translated from the Italian by GĂ©rard Pfister, Jezik/Language: Croatian. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rizzo, Patricia Thompson. Emily Dickinson and the "blue peninsula": Dickinson's reception in Italy. The Emily Dickinson Journal - Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1999, pp. 97-107
  2. ^ T. S. Eliot Collection, 1905, 1917-1979. Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  3. ^ Italian Women Writers Margherita Guidacci

[edit] External links

  • Contemporary Italian Women Poets, introduces the work of Margherita Guidacci to English-reading audiences presenting her work in the context of the diversity of women's poetry in Italy during the decades since World War II.


Persondata
NAME Guidacci, Margherita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1921-04-25
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH 1992
PLACE OF DEATH Rome