Massimo Bacigalupo (born 1947 in Rapallo, Italy) is an experimental filmmaker, scholar, and translator of poetry, essayist and literary critic. He was a founding member of the Cooperative of Independent Filmmakers in Rome. As a filmmaker of the Italian Independent Cinema (Cinema Indipendente Italiano), he was influenced by the New American Cinema.
Bacigalupo is also a scholar, specializing in Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and other American, English and Irish writers, whom he has edited and translated.[1][2][3] From 1990 to 2007 he was Professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa.[4] He is a member of the Ligurian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Genoa.[5]
- ^ "Scholars and their work".
- ^ Peter Makin,”Ideogram, ‘Right Naming’ and the Authoritarian Streak”, in: Zhaoming Qian (ed.), Ezra Pound and China, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (Univ. of Michigan Press) 2003, pp.120-142.
- ^ Alfredo Giuliani, “Per Confucio eia eia alala”, in: La Repubblica, July 7, 1985,p.17. Stefano Giovanardi refers to the exhibition "Ezra Pound: un poeta a Rapallo," curated by Bacigalupo and praises Bacigalupo’s annotated translation of Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius. See A. Giuliani, “Era un simpatico vecchio satiro” [He (Pound) was a dear old satyr], in: La Repubblica, July 7, 1985, p.16.
- ^ Cf. “Bacigalupo, Massimo Andrea”, in: Who’s Who in the World, 10th ed., 1991-1992. Stefano Verdino, "I 70 anni di Bacigalupo, intellettuale a tutto campo", in: Il Secolo XIX, 20 April 2017.
- ^ "Consiglio Direttivo". August 2017.