Vittorio Sereni's Poetry and Prose

This publication contains the largest selection of Vittorio Sereni’s poetry and prose published to date, along with an introduction, a table of dates, a commentary, and a full bibliography. There are also sixteen black and white illustrations showing the author at various stages in his life, some of the original covers to his books, and a few manuscript pages. It is the culmination of some twenty-six years’ work on the part of Marcus Perryman and myself. The cover shows a detail (through the window behind Jesus’s head) from Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper in Milan.

There are, regretfully, a small number of misprints, which we expect to have corrected in the first paperback printing. They are listed below:

• p. 18, line 3: FOR he calls READ he recalls
• p. 34, 4 lines up: FOR Oran on when READ Oran when
• p. 73, line 6: FOR years’ READ years
• p. 137, last line: FOR tomb). READ tomb.)
• p. 138 and p. 139. DELETE line space between lines 5 and 6
• p. 149, 9 lines up: FOR come back READ come back …
• p. 179, after line 10. ADD missing line: truths on life.
• p. 192, line 16: FOR duelli READ quelli
• p. 271, line 12: FOR Tenochtitlàn READ Tenochtitlan
• p. 275, last line: FOR floodings. READ floodings
• p. 275. ADD last line: and a slate multiply the summer’s color.
• p. 287, 15 line up: FOR impossible, or grievous, appear. READ impossible or grievous appears.
• p. 401, 31 lines up: FOR Canto VI READ Canto XXVI
• p. 426, line 5: FOR blage READ blague

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006 Buy online