Translations
For a couple of years I have been collaborating with the collective blog project Scritture di nonfiction.it. The texts I select for the project are often articles, short stories or extracts from works whose authors have kindly granted me permission to translate and publish a piece previously unavailable in Italian. For those who would like to get a sense of how I translate, below are the texts I have prepared so far for Scritture.
Darren Byler
A University of Washington student from Xinjiang caught in the web of Chinese surveillance.
Ravi Somaiya
Were white Europeans, led by a shadowy "Mr. X", behind the killing sixty years ago of the UN Secretary-General in Congo, in order to maintain their grip on power over Black Africans?
Emilio Sánchez Mediavilla
A walk through the streets and people of Beirut in the spring of 2016, to taste, observe and listen to the many contradictions of a complex and tormented city.
Zahra Hankir
A fava bean stew is the undisputed protagonist of this journey through the gastronomy, traditions and history of southern Lebanon.
Rebecca Altman
A historical essay on the production of plastic to understand the causes of the East Palestine train derailment and raise awareness about the risks to human and environmental health.
Clare Hammond
Lungo i binari delle ferrovie fantasma
An excerpt from *On the Shadow Tracks*, Clare Hammond's investigative travelogue along Burma's railways.
Books I have translated
Ben Rawlence
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Treeline - L'ultima foresta e il futuro della vita sulla terra, Francesco Brioschi Editore, 2022
Edgar Morin
Réveillons-nous !
Svegliamoci!, Mim Edizioni, 2022
Maria Ressa
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Come resistere a un dittatore, La nave di Teseo, 2023
Petra Goedde
Global Cultures
Culture globali, Einaudi, 2023
Kevin Gosztola
Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case against Julian Assange
Il caso Assange, Edizioni Piemme, 2023
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
The Bourgeois Virtues
Le virtù borghesi, Mondadori, 2025
Jonathan Clements
Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan
Isola ribelle, EDT, 2025
Amanda Hess
Second Life
Un'altra vita, Einaudi, 2025
Edward Dolnick
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
A cena con il dinosauro, Aboca, 2026
Ángeles Caso
Quiero escribirte esta noche una carta de amor
Stanotte voglio scriverti una lettera d'amore, Donzelli, 2026
Work in progress...
Einaudi