Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Post-Risorgimento Encounters: Enrico Nencioni, William Michael Rossetti, and Giosuè Carducci
Chapter 2. Luigi Gamberale’s Lifelong Translating Enterprise and Its Impact on Whitman’s Italian and International Reception
Chapter 3. “Whitman has said that which was sprouting in my mind”: Ada Negri’s Socialist Perspective and Creative Dialogue with Whitman
Chapter 4. “My big sympathy”: Whitman and Gabriele D’Annunzio
Chapter 5. Whitman, Giovanni Pascoli, and Symbolism: A Question of Sound
Chapter 6. NEMI, or Sibilla Aleramo: Writing about Whitman Behind a Pseudonym
Chapter 7. The Presence of Whitman in the Periodical La Voce
Chapter 8. Traveling with Whitman: Emanuel Carnevali and Dino Campana
Chapter 9. Whitman, the Futurists, and the Birth (and Death) of Free Verse
Chapter 10. Cesare Pavese’s Whitman: The “Poetry of Poetry Making”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index