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California Italian Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2011)

Rumore di acque / Noise in the Waters is a facing-page translation into English of the theater piece Rumore di acque, created by Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe, first presented in Ravenna in July 2010 and subsequently throughout Italy. The piece consists of the relentless, embittered monologue of a military bureaucrat stationed underground in a mid-Mediterranean island, whose duty is to tally the dead who have perished attempting to make the crossing from Africa to Italy. The CIS translation includes a brief biography of Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe.

    Cover page: <em>Rumore di acque / Noise in the Waters</em>
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    Carte Italiane, Volume 2, Issue 9 (2014)
    "A Defense of Honesty in the Land of Corruption" is a translation of "Apologo sull'onestà nel paese dei corrotti", by Italo Calvino, published in "La Repubblica", March 15, 1980, and republished in "Romanzi e racconti, volume terzo, Racconti e apologhi sparsi", Meridiani, Mondadori, 2005. Composed in the affabulatory but essential style of his collection of traditional Italian fables, the piece presents in few words a stark portrait of contemporary Italy, where every good citizen proceeds with clear conscience and high moral certainty to pocket illicit gains and defraud the state.
      Cover page: Translation - "Apologo sull'onestà nel paese dei corrotti" by Italo Calvino
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