Category Archives: italy

“Stasera” di Giuseppe Ungaretti

Posted on June 13, 2025 by julian peters comics

Balaustrata di brezza Per appoggiare stasera La mia malinconia. (An illustration inspired by Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti’s 1916 poem “Stasera” (“This Evening”). The text, which was composed while Ungaretti was a soldier in WW1, could be translated more or less … Continue reading →

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“Il porto sepolto” di Giuseppe Ungaretti

Posted on February 19, 2024 by julian peters comics

My graphic interpretation of the 1916 poem “Il porto sepolto” (“The Buried Port”) by the great Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970). This comic originally appeared in the third issue of “Junior Poetry Magazine,” an Italian magazine of poetry for young … Continue reading →

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Quattrocento Waterfall

Posted on January 31, 2022 by julian peters comics

It is a well-known phenomenon that, when one is feeling sick, all of the foods one normally finds delicious can come to seem entirely off-putting. Often at these times there are only one or two things one can bring oneself … Continue reading →

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Interview with Vincenzo Mascolo at the Ritratti di Poesia 2020 Festival

Posted on March 12, 2020 by julian peters comics

The 14th edition of the Ritratti di Poesia (“Portraits of Poetry”) festival, Rome’s premiere annual poetry event, took place on February 21 in the Auditorium della Conciliazione, just a few blocks way from St. Peter’s Square. I was invited to … Continue reading →

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