GLI ULTIMI GIORNI DI SHELLEY E BYRON - Book Presentation

Gli ultimi giorni di Shelley e Byron - Book presentation on Thursday 6 February at 5pm.

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the first Italian translation of the book Gli ultimi giorni di Shelley e Byron (Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron) by Edward John Trelawny.

Trelawny was not only a friend of the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, but was above all an exceptional witness to their last days, as chronicled in this book recently published in Italian by Quodlibet.

The book will be presented by Elisabetta Marino, Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and Marcella Majnoni, co-translator of the book.

Please note that the event will be in Italian.

Admission is free, but booking is mandatory due to the limited number of places (write to info@keats-shelley-house.org). 

Elisabetta Marino is Full Professor English Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and head of “Asia and the West” research centre. She is the author of four monographs: a volume on the figure of Tamerlane in British and American literature (2000); an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature (2005); a study on the relationship between Mary Shelley and Italy (2011); an analysis of the Romantic dramas on a mythological subject (2016). In 2006 she published the first Italian translation of poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Between 2001 and 2023 she has edited/co-edited fifteen collections of essays and a Special Forum of Journal of Transnational American Studies (2012). In 2022, she translated Parkwater, a Victorian novel by Ellen Wood, for the first time into Italian. She has published extensively on the English Romantic writers (especially Mary Shelley and P.B. Shelley), Indian diasporic literature, travel literature, and Italian American literature.She co-edited a special issue of De-Genere. Journal of Postcolonial, Literary and Gender Studies (2022), and acted as guest editor for a special issue of Journal of American Studies of Turkey focused on Italian American material culture (2023).

Marcella Majnoni graduated in English literature and occasionally translates non-fiction and literature, including: Gershom Scholem, Scholem/Shalom, Quodlibet, 2001; Nathaniel Hawthorne, La lettera scarlatta, la biblioteca di Repubblica, 2004; Louise Bourgeois, Distruzione del padre/Ricostruzione del padre, Quodlibet, 2009; Rotraut Susanne Berner, Fiabe a fumetti, Quodlibet, 2017 and Nizrana Farook, La ragazza che rubò un elefante, Emons, 2022.