Romeo Lucchese traduttore di Saint-John Perse

Art critic, poet and translator Romeo Lucchese supported a groundbreaking project. He was a passionate and attentive reader of Saint-John Perse’s poetry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. Lucchese wondered why a poet like Perse was not accorded the attention he received abroad and engaged in a challenging translation project so as to widen the potentialities of an immense work. Art critic, poet and translator Romeo Lucchese supported a groundbreaking project. He was a passionate and attentive reader of Saint-John Perse’s poetry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. Lucchese wondered why a poet like Perse was not accorded the attention he received abroad and engaged in a challenging translation project so as to widen the potentialities of an immense work. Art critic, poet and translator Romeo Lucchese supported a groundbreaking project. He was a passionate and attentive reader of Saint-John Perse’s poetry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. Lucchese wondered why a poet like Perse was not accorded the attention he received abroad and engaged in a challenging translation project so as to widen the potentialities of an immense work.