Finally, I provide an extensive up-to-date bibliography on Villa s works that will prove a useful tool for future scholarship. The Sampling of Things to Come includes a passage from Villa s unpublished translation of Genesis. At the end of every translation the reader will find footnotes that explain cultural references and highlight the various techniques the poet utilizes. The Italian of these poems has been rendered in English and the other languages have been left intact in order to maintain the same feel as the original. The remainder of this edition comprises selections from each collection Villa authored over the seventy years of his literary career. Section 3, A Poet of Biblical Proportions, analyses Villa s translation of Genesis, his poetry in different languages, an essay on primordial man, and one of his art criticism essays to show how he displayed the same interest for the verbum naturans in all his artistic endeavors. My findings demonstrate that Villa s poetic experiments anticipated many of those carried out by individual writers or entire groups. iiĥ Section 2, Emilio Villa in the Landscape of 20 th Century Poetry, inserts the poet within the 20 th century canon, comparing his work to that of his Italian contemporaries, as well as to that of international poets, such as Ezra Pound and the members of Noigandres in Brazil. Here, I also consider the most prominent critical essays on Emilio Villa and discuss some of the claims made therein. Section 1 of the introduction, the Status quaestionis, examines the rather fragmented state of Villa s artistic corpus (both published and unpublished) as it has been disseminated between various institutions and private collections across the globe. By offering both the originals and their English translations, this edition makes his works accessible to an international audience. Second, Villa s texts were printed by small publishing houses throughout Italy, and are for the most part unavailable today. Here, instead, I show how everything Villa did was interrelated: no matter the activity or language he engaged, he searched to harness the creative force of the verbum naturans, the original linguistic act. First, critics have chosen to separate Villa s different artistic interests, as well as the various languages he employs. The present study seeks to address two major issues concerning his works. His poems encompass modern and ancient languages, including Milanese, Italian, French, English, Latin, Greek, Sumerian, and Akkadian. A Dissertation and Translation Author Siracusa, Dominic Edward Publication Date Peer reviewed Thesis/dissertation Powered by the California Digital Library University of CaliforniaĢ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Emilio Villa: Poet of Biblical Proportions A Dissertation and Translation A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosohpy in Italian by Dominic Edward Siracusa 2014Ĥ ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Emilio Villa: Poet of Biblical Proportions A Dissertation and Translation by Dominic Edward Siracusa Doctor of Philosophy in Italian University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor Luigi Ballerini, Chair Emilio Villa ( ) was a poet, visual artist, translator, critic and Bible scholar. 1 UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Emilio Villa: Poet of Biblical Proportions.
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