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Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located

Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located
I was asking myself, in the film,
in a nearly deserted street,
flanked by low houses,
we kept on looking.

© Translation: 2009, Ron Banerjee
From: Natural Theater. Selected Poems 1976–2009 by Giampiero Neri
Publisher: Chelsea Editions, New York, 2009

Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located

Waar het kasteel van Don Rodrigo staat
vroeg ik mij af, in de film,
in de bijna verlaten straat,
geflankeerd door lage huizen,
bleven wij kijken.

Dove sorga il palazzotto di Don Rodrigo
mi stavo domandando, nel film
nella strada quasi deserta
fiancheggiata da case basse
continuavamo a guardare.

Giampiero Neri

(Italy, 1927)

Giampiero Neri (the pseudonym of Giampietro Pontiggia) was born in Erba, in the province of Como, in 1927. He lives in Milan. His life has been marked by tragic events – the death of his father, who was killed when Giampiero was sixteen, the suicide of a sister in her twenties – which appear, however, only indirectly in his poetry. A bank employee, he has cultivated entomological and literary i...

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Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located

Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located
I was asking myself, in the film,
in a nearly deserted street,
flanked by low houses,
we kept on looking.

© 2009, Ron Banerjee
From: Natural Theater. Selected Poems 1976–2009 by Giampiero Neri
Publisher: 2009, Chelsea Editions, New York

Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located

Where would Don Rodrigo’s mansion be located
I was asking myself, in the film,
in a nearly deserted street,
flanked by low houses,
we kept on looking.

© 2009, Ron Banerjee
From: Natural Theater. Selected Poems 1976–2009 by Giampiero Neri
Publisher: 2009, Chelsea Editions, New York