“Con il verso a fronte. Poeti-traduttori della letteratura italiana contemporanea. Mariano Bàino, Franco Buffoni, Roberto Deidier, Roberto Piumini, Eduardo Zuccato”

Italian contemporary Poet-translators According to Friedmar Apel «[...] Literary translation is a “form” that understands and gives substance to the experience of the original in another language». Of this “dialectical uniqueness”, in its form and content, the German scholar highlighted above all the relationship that, from time to time, was being established between the single work and a specific “horizon of reception”; and on whose perspective line the historical-cultural context, the language stage, the literary tradition and the dominant ‘poetics’ were placed. If compared to the experience of five poet-translators in contemporary Italian Literature (Mariano Bàino, Franco Buffoni, Roberto Deidier, Roberto Piumini, Eduardo Zuccato) the definition of Friedmar Apel’s “movement of language” seems to find a very authoritative model; forerunner in the idea of “poietic interlocking” formulated by Luciano Anceschi. Also a dual definition – in the twin normative function of the “poetics of the translated” and the “poetics of the translator” – recognized by Anceschi above all in the “reflection that artists and poets carry out on their own actions, indicating the technical systems, the operating rules, morality, ideals”.