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Gaetano Cipolla is a retired professor ofItalian and Chairman of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages atSt. John's University inNew York City. He was born and raised inFrancavilla di Sicilia inMessina Province,Sicily and emigrated to the US in 1955. He received his Bachelor of Science (1961) fromNew York University, Master of Arts (1969) fromHunter College (CUNY), and the PhD (1974) from New York University. He joined the faculty of St. John's University in 1974 and retired in 2011.
Cipolla has written numerous scholarly articles onDante,Petrarch,Tasso,Pirandello,Calvino and others. Some of his essays appear inLabyrinth: Studies on an Archetype. He is also the author of a number of very successful booklets such asWhat Italy Has Given to the World andWhat Makes a Sicilian? He is President ofArba Sicula, an international organization that promotes the language and culture ofSicily and he is the editor of the journalArba Sicula (Sicilian Dawn) and the newsletterSicilia Parra (Sicily Speaks).
He is the general editor of three series of books forLegas Publishing:Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula, which has published five volumes;Sicilian Studies, with six volumes; andItalian Poetry in Translation with seven volumes.
Prof. Cipolla has translated several authors from theSicilian language:Giovanni Meli'sThe Origins of the World,Don Chisciotti and Sanciu Panza, andMoral Fables and Other Poems;Vincenzo Ancona'sMalidittu la lingua /Damned Language;The Poetry ofNino Martoglio; andAntonino Provenzano'sVinissi/I'd Love to Come. He has also translatedGiuseppe Fava's playViolenza (2001), andHistory of Autonomous Sicily (Legas 2001) byRomolo Menighetti andFranco Nicastro.
Cipolla is the U. S. representative ofLegas Publishing, a multilingual publishing company, and is based inMineola, New York.
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