Lettera a Leo von Seckendorff. Nürtingen, 12 marzo 1804

Friedrich Hölderlin’s letter to Leo von Seckendorff (March 12th 1804), a major biographical and poetological document for scholars, in the Italian translation by Gianni Bertocchini

Lettera a Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorff. Nürtingen presso Stoccarda, 4 dicembre 1801

Friedrich Hölderlin’s letter to his friend Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorff (December 4th 1801), a major biographical and poetological document for scholars, in the Italian translation by Gianni Bertocchini

Brød og vin

Brød og vi

Due lettere di Friedrich Hölderlin

Here's the first italian translation of two letters by Friedrich Hölderlin, written between November 1798 and January 1799 and adressed respectively to Christian Ludwig Neuffer (the first one) and to Hölderlin's youngest brother Karl (the second one). Aim of these two letters is to clarify and to take a deeper look into the notion of lebendiges, the “living element”, which is at the heart of Hölderlins' poetics. Translated by Mariagrazia Portera

Lettera al fratello Karl (I gennaio 1799). Traduzione di Elena Polledri

Friedrich Hölderlin’s letter to his brother Carl (January 1st 1799), a major biographical and poetological document for scholars, in the very first Italian translation by Elena Polledri

Universalism and the (un)translatable

A unified set of questions arises in translation theory as it does in philosophy: how can one particularity be related to another? Can any general truth emerge from this relationship? And if so, in what particular language might this general truth be thought about and discussed? This article explores how various French thinkers have addressed these questions, from Alain Badiou’s recent account of philosophical French in terms of universalism, to Antoine Berman’s and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s readings of an alternative approach to universalism provided by German thought. Where a key passage in Badiou’s text suggests that he has Friedrich Hölderlin in mind, this poet-translator provides an explicit model for the other two thinkers