Nekrolog: Pietro Marchesani (8 lutego 1942 – 29 listopada 2011)
Obituary: Pietro Marchesani (8 February 1942 – 29 November 2011)

Summary/Abstract: The author sketches a biography and academic as well as translation achievement of Pietro Marchesani, a professor at the University of Genoa. Marchesani was a graduate in Italian of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He started his professional carrier as an Italian lecturer firstly in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the 1967/1968 academic year, and then at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (1969–1971). The author’s special interest is the latter period of Marchesani’s biography and he shows how strongly Marchesani’s interests were guided on Polish literature and how close ties he established with Cracow’s academic community. As a result, Marchesani became a distinguished professor of Polish in Italy and a remarkable translator of contemporary Polish poets, namely Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz, and above all Wisława Szymborska.

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