“If you talk to the shadows,
at least you know them well
and the words, all of them,
unfold themselves with ease
on muddled walls and streets,
when dusk comes on.”

— Fausto Cercignani

Adagio (2004)
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004)

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Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941

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