La poesia modernista ispanoamericana nelle traduzioni italiane

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the main lines of the diffusion of Hispano-American Modernist poetry in Italy, through the definition of a corpus of translations of the main authors of that literary current in our country. The analysis will focus on the translations that appeared in single volumes and in the numerous anthologies of Hispano-American poetry between the 1960s and 1980s. The analysis of this corpus will show how little Modernism has been known in Italy, and in a way that is often conditioned by the critical views of the various moments in which its diffusion took place. The history of his diffusion will then pass through the analysis of the volumes of individual authors and their presence in anthologies of Hispanic-American poetry. My attention will focus in particular on the poetic production, which is largely in the majority in the volumes examined, with particular attention to those paratextual apparatuses – introductions, biographical notes, translators' notes – that aim to situate the authors in a precise historical period and in a literary current that is little known in Italy.