Collection Overview
This collection represents the literary output of the internationally acclaimed poet, translator, humanist, and scholar Prof. Joseph Tusiani (1924-2020). In addition to his poetry and translations, the professor wrote books and book chapters, novels, essays, journal and magazine articles, literary criticism, and reviews. Prof. Tusiani was widely respected in Italy and the United States and wrote primarily in Italian, the Gargano dialect, Latin, English, and Spanish. In addition to his own publications, this collection includes translations of his works by other scholars, as well as their critiques and reviews.
Prof. Tusiani was a classicist and wrote prodigiously in Latin. His Carmina Latina (1994) the first of a series of seven volumes of poetry; as well as In Nobis Caelum another work of Latin poems and verse. Other notable works by the professor include his translations of The Complete Poems of Michelangelo (1960), Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered,1970), and the full 35,000 lines of Pulci’s Morgante (1998). His three-volume anthology included Italian Poets of the Renaissance (1971), The Age of Dante (1974), and From Marino to Marinetti (1974). Prof. Tusiani also produced Storie dal Gargano (2006), a fifty-year compilation of his dialectal works in Gargano. In addition, his Gente Mia and Other Poems (1978), Prof. Tusiani’s three-volume autobiography La Parola Difficile (1988), La Parola Nuova (1991) and La Parola Antica (1992) explore immigrant experiences in the United States.