LA FORMA DELLE COSE SCONOSCIUTE ( THE SHAPE OF THE DISOWNED THINGS)

First edition, LIMITED EDITION #29 of 50 copies in a total edition of 60 copies. Folio, 34pp., illustrated with 7 original acqueforti (Etchings) by Bepi Romagnoni. SIGNED BY BOTH SANESI & ROMAGNONI. Text in Italian. “Roberto Sanesi, was one of the most remarkable Italian writers of his generation. A highly accomplished and prolific poet, he was capable of working in a great variety of metrical forms, and was a master of free verse. His poetry, always imbued with a certain intellectuality, ranged extensively from the confessional and anecdotal to the philosophical and metaphysical, and he could shift register with extraordinary skill, from the lyrical to the factual to the speculative, within the bound of a single poem. In this respect he had learned much from TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, whose formal diversities and virtuoso uses of poetic impersonality he adapted with great originality to his own purposes in Italian. Sanesi was also a major translator of English and American poetry, making available for the first time much of the historical and modernist canons of British, Irish and American verse. He directed Italian versions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Eliot, and wrote and translated libretti for operatic productions, including Benjamin Britten's The Turn of The Screw. A sensitive, respected and enthusiastic art critic, he was greatly loved by those whose work he championed. He created his own form of quick and fanciful pictorial calligraphy, and exhibited and published it with great success. He was also a gifted teacher and broadcaster." Very scarce. A fine copy in publisher’s original case. …