Dante: On Reflection – ‘he and I’ refers to Dante’s companion, Virgil. the river from which no soul returns; three times that shade fled, fugitive as dream. – Quotations from Virgil’s Aeneid. A Cricket for Pirandello – Nascere grilli è pure qualche cosa, from Pirandello’s poem, ‘Visita / Visit’. I render it as ‘hatching fancies is also something’. ‘grilli’ is untranslatable because it means crickets, but also whims, fantasies, fancies.
