Luigi Ballerini

Background

Luigi Ballerini was born on April 20, 1940, in Milan, Italy. He is a son of Raffaele and Umbertina Ballerini.

Education

In 1961 Luigi Ballerini attended Wesleyan University and Catholic University. In 1965 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Bologna.

Career

From 1969 to 1971 Luigi Ballerini was an assistant professor of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the beginning of 1971, he was a faculty member at the City College of New York. From 1973 to 1975 Ballerini was a faculty member at the City University of New York. From 1975 to 1992 he was a faculty member at New York University and a director of Italian studies until 1992.

In 1992 he was a professor of Italian and chairman of the department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published several anthologies of American and Italian poetry. He also translated into Italian the works of Henry James, Herman Melville, William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin, and Kurt Vonnegut. He is also known as a cooking historian. He edited Pellegrino Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well and Maestro Martino's The Book of the Culinary Art.

Achievements

• Luigi Ballerini is best known as the author of The Cadence of a Neighboring Tribe and The Book of the Last of the Mohegans. In 1992 he was awarded the Feronia Prize for Poetry.

Works

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  • Cephalonia

    (This is a narrative poem in the form of a dialogue or rat...)

    2005
  • Italy Observed in Photography and Literature

    (A collection of photographs taken over the past three dec...)

    1988
  • The Cadence of the Neighboring Tribe

    (The thirty poems that make up The Cadence of a Neighborin...)

    1997
  • Shearsmen of Sorts: Italian Poetry 1975-1993

    (This volume offers a selection of poetic texts written af...)

    1992
  • Italian Visual Poetry, 1912-1972 1973
  • Logical Space 1975
  • Spelt from Sibyl's leaves: Explorations in Italian art 1975
  • The Promised Land: Italian Poetry After 1975 2000

Connections

In 1963 Luigi Ballerini married July Cullinan. They have a son, Edoardo. In 1982 they divorced.

Father:

Raffaele Ballerini

Mother:

Umbertina Ballerini

ex-spouse:

July Ballerini

Son:

Edoardo Ballerini

References

• Contemporary Authors
  2010