Gregory Dowling
@gregorydowling.bsky.social
Taught American literature at Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Translator, literary critic, crime-fiction writer.
The moment of decision: the award-giving ceremony of Venice Noir at the Teatro del Ridotto, Hotel Monaco, yesterday.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The moment of decision: the award-giving ceremony of Venice Noir at the Teatro del Ridotto, Hotel Monaco, yesterday.
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#VeniceNoir: Friday 14/11, Ateneo Veneto:
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#VeniceNoir: Friday 14/11, Ateneo Veneto:
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Penguin Bk of Romantic Poetry. Why did the editors mangle the poem?
Byron gives the refrain in Greek, 'Zoë mou, sas agapo' - and puts the English in a footnote. Substituting the translation for the original Greek ruins both metre & rhyme.
They don't even give the Greek in their own end-note.
Byron gives the refrain in Greek, 'Zoë mou, sas agapo' - and puts the English in a footnote. Substituting the translation for the original Greek ruins both metre & rhyme.
They don't even give the Greek in their own end-note.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Penguin Bk of Romantic Poetry. Why did the editors mangle the poem?
Byron gives the refrain in Greek, 'Zoë mou, sas agapo' - and puts the English in a footnote. Substituting the translation for the original Greek ruins both metre & rhyme.
They don't even give the Greek in their own end-note.
Byron gives the refrain in Greek, 'Zoë mou, sas agapo' - and puts the English in a footnote. Substituting the translation for the original Greek ruins both metre & rhyme.
They don't even give the Greek in their own end-note.
From Richard Holmes's new biography of Tennyson, "The Boundless Deep": A. E. Stallings's championship of 'New American Formalism' is presented as the way to 'recover the 'lost delights' of metrical forms for the 21st century.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
From Richard Holmes's new biography of Tennyson, "The Boundless Deep": A. E. Stallings's championship of 'New American Formalism' is presented as the way to 'recover the 'lost delights' of metrical forms for the 21st century.
@aestallings.bsky.social
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November in Verona
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
November in Verona
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
13th-century example of Venetian dialect, south facade of San Marco:
"L'om po far e dir in pensar
e vega quelo che li po inchontrar."
Roughly:
A man can do and say as he thinks fit,
And then he'll see what comes of it.
"L'om po far e dir in pensar
e vega quelo che li po inchontrar."
Roughly:
A man can do and say as he thinks fit,
And then he'll see what comes of it.
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
13th-century example of Venetian dialect, south facade of San Marco:
"L'om po far e dir in pensar
e vega quelo che li po inchontrar."
Roughly:
A man can do and say as he thinks fit,
And then he'll see what comes of it.
"L'om po far e dir in pensar
e vega quelo che li po inchontrar."
Roughly:
A man can do and say as he thinks fit,
And then he'll see what comes of it.
Hope it's not considered too late to post yesterday's sunset...
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hope it's not considered too late to post yesterday's sunset...
And on the north facade there are the two winged griffins taking Alexander the Great into the heavens - lured to do so by the succulent kebabs he's brandishing, apparently.
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
And on the north facade there are the two winged griffins taking Alexander the Great into the heavens - lured to do so by the succulent kebabs he's brandishing, apparently.
Good luck with trying to catch a vaporetto this morning...
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Good luck with trying to catch a vaporetto this morning...
