O poeta milanês Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799), embora ocupe um papel de destaque na história da literatura italiana no século XVIII, não é estudado no Brasil, inclusive dentro do ambiente acadêmico voltado aos estudos da italianística. Seu poema narrativo Il Giorno é considerado uma das mais importantes obras do Settecento italiano, apresentando uma dura crítica à nobreza do século XVIII por meio de uma sátira que busca se opor à poesia árcade sentimental em voga na época. O poema de Parini serviu de inspiração para grandes autores da literatura italiana estudados atualmente inclusive no Brasil, como Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni e Ugo Foscolo. Original, clássico e, ao mesmo tempo, atual, Il Giorno é uma obra que merece ser incluída nos estudos de literatura da academia brasileira e, portanto, necessita de uma versão comentada e anotada em língua portuguesa. Entendemos que sua ausência nos estudos dos italianistas brasileiros deva-se sobretudo à dificuldade de compreensão do poema, repleto de latinismos e figuras de linguagem e som, e julgamos que apresentar uma tradução comentada de ao menos uma parte Il Giorno é uma forma de incentivar o contato de professores, pesquisadores e estudantes com esse grande autor e, dessa forma, torná-lo conhecido em nosso meio acadêmico. Portanto, apresentamos uma tradução comentada de Il Mattino, primeira parte da obra. Trata-se de uma tradução estrangeirizante, que preserva os arcaísmos e rebuscamentos do poema italiano, fundamentais em sua constituição como obra satírica ao se contrapor ao assunto narrado na obra: o dia a dia superficial e irrelevante de um jovem membro da aristocracia italiana do século XVIII. / Although the Milanese poet Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799) plays a prominent role in the history of Italian literature of the eighteenth century, he is not studied in Brazil, not even within the academic community focused on Italian studies. His narrative poem Il Giorno is considered one of the most important works of the Italian Settecento: it presents a harsh criticism to the nobility of the eighteenth century by means of a satire that seeks to oppose itself to the sentimental Arctic poetry, very much in vogue at the time. Parinis poem was an inspiration for great Italian writers that are studied nowadays, in Brazil as well as abroad, such as Leopardi, Manzoni and Ugo Foscolo. Original, classic and modern at the same time, Il Giorno deserves to be included in the literature studies of the Brazilian academic community, and, therefore, needs an annotated version in Brazilian Portuguese. We understand that its absence in the field of Italian studies in Brazil is dewed mainly to the difficulty of its comprehension, full of Latinisms and stylistic literary devices, and we believe that an annotated translation of at least one part of Il Giorno is a way to encourage teachers, researchers and students to get in touch with this great writer and, thereby, make him known in our academic community. Therefore, we present an annotated translation of Il Mattino, the first part of Il Giorno. It is a foreignization translation, with all the archaisms and refinements of the Italian poem, considering that those archaisms and refinements, when countering the subject narrated in the work the superficial and irrelevant day-to-day of a young member of the Italian aristocracy of the eighteenth century , are fundamental to the formation of the poem as a satiric work.

O poeta milanês Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799), embora ocupe um papel de destaque na história da literatura italiana no século XVIII, não é estudado no Brasil, inclusive dentro do ambiente acadêmico voltado aos estudos da italianística. Seu poema narrativo Il Giorno é considerado uma das mais importantes obras do Settecento italiano, apresentando uma dura crítica à nobreza do século XVIII por meio de uma sátira que busca se opor à poesia árcade sentimental em voga na época. O poema de Parini serviu de inspiração para grandes autores da literatura italiana estudados atualmente inclusive no Brasil, como Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni e Ugo Foscolo. Original, clássico e, ao mesmo tempo, atual, Il Giorno é uma obra que merece ser incluída nos estudos de literatura da academia brasileira e, portanto, necessita de uma versão comentada e anotada em língua portuguesa. Entendemos que sua ausência nos estudos dos italianistas brasileiros deva-se sobretudo à dificuldade de compreensão do poema, repleto de latinismos e figuras de linguagem e som, e julgamos que apresentar uma tradução comentada de ao menos uma parte Il Giorno é uma forma de incentivar o contato de professores, pesquisadores e estudantes com esse grande autor e, dessa forma, torná-lo conhecido em nosso meio acadêmico. Portanto, apresentamos uma tradução comentada de Il Mattino, primeira parte da obra. Trata-se de uma tradução estrangeirizante, que preserva os arcaísmos e rebuscamentos do poema italiano, fundamentais em sua constituição como obra satírica ao se contrapor ao assunto narrado na obra: o dia a dia superficial e irrelevante de um jovem membro da aristocracia italiana do século XVIII. / Although the Milanese poet Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799) plays a prominent role in the history of Italian literature of the eighteenth century, he is not studied in Brazil, not even within the academic community focused on Italian studies. His narrative poem Il Giorno is considered one of the most important works of the Italian Settecento: it presents a harsh criticism to the nobility of the eighteenth century by means of a satire that seeks to oppose itself to the sentimental Arctic poetry, very much in vogue at the time. Parinis poem was an inspiration for great Italian writers that are studied nowadays, in Brazil as well as abroad, such as Leopardi, Manzoni and Ugo Foscolo. Original, classic and modern at the same time, Il Giorno deserves to be included in the literature studies of the Brazilian academic community, and, therefore, needs an annotated version in Brazilian Portuguese. We understand that its absence in the field of Italian studies in Brazil is dewed mainly to the difficulty of its comprehension, full of Latinisms and stylistic literary devices, and we believe that an annotated translation of at least one part of Il Giorno is a way to encourage teachers, researchers and students to get in touch with this great writer and, thereby, make him known in our academic community. Therefore, we present an annotated translation of Il Mattino, the first part of Il Giorno. It is a foreignization translation, with all the archaisms and refinements of the Italian poem, considering that those archaisms and refinements, when countering the subject narrated in the work the superficial and irrelevant day-to-day of a young member of the Italian aristocracy of the eighteenth century , are fundamental to the formation of the poem as a satiric work.

Italian poet Vera Gherarducci published her second book, Giorno Unico (A Single Day), in 1970. This project consists of translations of 24 of these poems, a translation of the book’s introduction by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and a critical translator’s introduction. The critical introduction positions the work within the context of post-war Italian women’s poetry; explores the legacy of mental health in literature and its ties with diary writing and gender; and discusses specific translation strategies related to these issues. Giorno Unico deals extensively with themes of mental health, focusing on struggles with depression, suicidal thoughts, marital problems, and maternal anxieties. Such topics place the work in conversation with many other post-war women writers in Italy grappling with new conceptions of womanhood and the burgeoning Italian feminist movement. Themes of mental health are also expressed by the poems being written in the form of an intimate diary, though the temporal mapping is complicated by flashback and circular narration. As the title suggests, these poems come to resemble one long, never-ending day, manifesting in the recurrence of words and phrases, frequent mental health metaphors of being trapped inside, and the repetition of monotonous household work. After contextualizing the work’s primary characteristics, I then frame my own translation approach that looks to foreground the presence of mental health and preserve the characteristics of the diary form. This approach was influenced by feminist translation theorists such as Sherry Simon and Barbara Godard who challenge the monolithic nature of both source and target texts, and endorse the recovery of forgotten women writers through translation. In my principal theoretical assertion, I push against Lawrence Venuti’s discussion of the inherent violence enacted in translation, and conceive of what I term a non-lobotomizing translation approach to Giorno Unico. This framework rejects a masking of mental health in the collection, instead underscoring such taboo themes. In some cases, I choose more clinical translations of terminology to directly reference mental health discourse; in others I select more dated terms, such as “madness,” to gesture to a different framing of mental illness during the writing of Giorno Unico.