Carlo Massimo

🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺 Reporter by day. Poet/translator by night. All views disgracefully my own || opinioni tutte mie, soprattutto le boiate

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

Pleasure to hear Andriy Lyubka, poet and novelist, at @kennaninstitute. "Culture has ceased to be an entertainment," from an explosion in bookstores to public poetry readings and plays.

"We have beautiful signs of a cultural renaissance in Ukraine"

[The Wilson Center @TheWilsonCenter]

HAPPENING TODAY | “Art as Armor: The Role of #Ukrainian Culture in National Defense,” presented by @kennaninstitute. https://t.co/1kzs1Ls8WN

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

@yuanyi_z Congratulations!!

[IPCallaway @IanCallaway352]

Homage to #PatrickLeighFermor who died today in 2011.

[Classical Odyssey @Rux_Dacoromana]

“A horse is a thing of beauty…”

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

@Rux_Dacoromana ❤️❤️❤️

[Chiara Degli Esposti 🚐🍔🦊 @chiadegli]

Il porco con l’eye-liner che veniva in Europa a impartirci lezioni di rettitudine cristiana

[Armée de Terre @armeedeTerre]

Besoin de renforts ?

#Cerces25 ❄️ #Neige

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

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[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

It is the birthday of Taras Shevchenko (1814-61), Ukraine’s bard, born into serfdom. When Russians invaded in 2022, they planted a bullet in the forehead of his monument, which a Ukrainian man then carefully bandaged. Below is my translation of a poem by Pyotr Buturlin (1859-95).

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

Quote by Lech Wałesa

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

5/ The Oval Office atmosphere during your conversation reminded us of interrogations by the Security Services and Communist courts. Back then, prosecutors told us they held all the power while we had none.

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

@DAMendelsohnNYC Well deserved!!

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

A farmer ploughing his field next to the first-century Temple of Zeus in Aizanoi, Turkey. (Ozan Sağdıç, 1970)

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

As venal men who never fought for anything but themselves push to pillage Ukraine, I recall the great Ukrainian-American Jack Palance, awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star in WWII. Below: the poem he read at the 1964 dedication of Shevchenko’s memorial in DC. (Trans. Voynich.)

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

@duns_sc0tus “John Smith was a villain, but the John Smith that I knew was kind” - like that? Yes you can

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

@BorisDralyuk “No mercy”!!!

I’m curious about the comma splice in the first line: was that a conscious choice? Its perfect for the stumbling/reeling/loitering key

[Ugo Ramella @RamellaUgo]

Domenico Veneziano. 1400 1461 Ritratto di Donna

[Carlo Massimo @CarloMassimo6]

Re TikTok and its mourners

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

10. F. Scott Fitzgerald conjugates "to Cocktail," the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb, in a 1928 letter to Blanche Knopf.

[Adrian @blagojevism]

Bannon versus Musk is symptomatic of the broader clash between Bannon's Dracula Right (European castles, Julius Evola, dubious relics, magical amulets) and Elon's Frankenstein Right (promethean tech fantasies, vivisections, pseudo-medicine).

[David Hering @hering_david]

It’s unironically wonderful that one of our biggest pop stars is opening up a huge audience to literature in translation

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Meanwhile in Russia: State Duma member Alexander Kazakov explained why Russia is cutting undersea cables. Propagandists complained that Europe is still not freezing and isn't suffering nearly enough, as they contemplated "punishing" it after this war ends.
https://t.co/lk88RZTgdy

[Chora Media @Chora_Media]

#FreeCecilia