Luigi Ballerini
Historian, Author
1940 –
Who is Luigi Ballerini?
Luigi Ballerini, born in Milan in 1940, currently living in New York and Los Angeles, is an Italian poet, professor of modern and contemporary Italian Literature at UCLA and a historian of gastronomy. He is the father of actor Edoardo Ballerini.
His works of poetry were issued under the following titles:
eccetera. E
Che figurato muore
Che oror l'orient
Il terzo gode
Stracci shakespeariani
Uscita senza strada
Uno monta la luna.
Cefalonia 43 e altre poesie.
He has published several anthologies of American and Italian Poetry. La rosa disabitata in 1981, Shearsmen of Sorts in 1992 and The Promised Land in 1999. In this same year, he also published the anthology of Gertrude Stein under the title La sacra Emilia e altre poesie.
He also translated into Italian the works of Henry James, Herman Melville, William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin and Kurt Vonnegut. He is also known as a cooking historian. He edited Pellegrino Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well and Maestro Martino's The Book of the Culinary Art.
In 1992 he was awarded the Feronia Prize for Poetry.
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on July 23, 2013
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