Vittorio Bodini, “a brilliant translator, a brilliant man, a brilliant poet”

Abstract

The present note sets out to review several publications on the figure of Vittorio Bodini, a poet, a hispanist, and a cultural activist for Italy's  Mezzogiorno , who died in 1970. Its main object are the proceedings of the international study conference  Vittorio Bodini fra Sud ed Europa (1914-2014) , edited by Antonio Lucio Giannone; it also considers several volumes of a series which under the title «Bodiniana» offers new editions of his publications, together with unpublished material from the Archivio Bodini. The contributions to the one-day conference  Vittorio Bodini tra l’Italia e la Spagna , which took place at the Universitat de Valencia in March 2018, are also considered in the paper.