The publication of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portuguese poet and writer most of the twentieth century, in large part unpublished at the time of his death, he has committed and continues to commit numerous and philologists scholars. In particular those that form part of the team Pessoa of Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon, which has the merit of having started, for years now, a difficult careful and critical-genetic pessoana the work, both in verse and in prose, edited by ' Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda .
in Italy have appeared in recent decades, many works of translation, published and unpublished writings of Pessoa. In addition to remembering the notes published by A. Tabucchi and MJ De Lancaster and the director of this series, the most recent volumes include: messages (Passigli, Bagno a Ripoli, 2003), very original Dinner (including 2004), Fiddler crazy (including 2004), The poems of Ricardo Reis (including 2005), Works of Antonio Mora (Quodlibet, Macerata 2005), The book restlessness (Newton Compton, Rome, 2006), Essays on language (The Wire, Rome, 2006), Vargas The case (ibid., 2006), Tales of anxiety (Rizzoli, Milan 2007), esoteric poems (Bloomsbury Publishing, Parma, 2008), The Banker anarchist (ibid., 2008), On tyranny (ibid., 2009), The world that I do not see (Rizzoli, Milan 2009). Today
Edizioni dell'Urogallo announce the release of the second volume of the series devoted to works by Fernando Pessoa: Economics & Business, Enterprise, monopoly, freedom , by Brunello De Cusatis, ISBN 978-88-97365-05-1, Perugia 2011.
Many do not know, but the great Portuguese poet also wrote economics, economics for a magazine he founded. This volume collects all the writings of Pessoa's economic argument. Particularly entertaining sections on publishing and the prohibition against alcoholic beverages in the United States of America.
From the back cover
In January of 1926 - with a baggage, twenty years of experience and knowledge acquired in the economic-commercial, supported by theoretical certainly above the average of Portuguese intellectuals of his contemporaries - Fernando Pessoa founded in Lisbon, together with his cousin Francisco Caetano Dias, the "Revista de Comércio e Contabilidade." This volume brings together all eleven Pessoa articles have appeared in this monthly magazine, which went out of six numbers, and most of a number of his notes - "short precepts, maxims and considerations of various kinds" - scattered among the pages of the magazine itself, with the addition of three previously unpublished writings, published posthumously for the first time in the striking and 1986.Estremamente specimens, often trails from that vein of humor and eccentricity which the poet has used when discussing political and social topics, these texts, however, remain unchanged throughout their interest. Rather we have to agree that some of them are designed and written with rigor, a demonstration of Pessoa in possession of a good education not only commercial and economic but also of appropriate knowledge of the financial market and, as always attentive observer of facts and changes in both domestic and internazionali.Inoltre, the volume includes a mo 'for a very interesting and illuminating afterword essay (The' evolution of trade 'by Fernando Pessoa), written for the occasion, the late Alfredo Margarido friend, poet, artist Portuguese-renowned plastic and critic, author of several studies on Pessoa, which is widely considered a leading expert.
The Curator
Brunello De Cusatis is Associate Professor and Head, Faculty of Arts, University of Perugia, the chairs of "Brazilian and Portuguese Literature" and "Language and Brazilian Portuguese." In addition to having published numerous articles - have appeared in magazines and newspapers, both Italian and foreign - of critical content and literary, historical, cultural, linguistic and political science, has prepared an Italian translation of several anthologies of writers and poets, and Brazilian Portuguese.
regard to Fernando Pessoa, in addition to this volume - in the first edition came out in 2000 for the types of Roma Design - edited volumes: Scritti di sociology and political theory (Settimo Sigillo, Rome 1994), anche in traduzione Tedesco (Karolinger, Wien 1995) and Politics and profezia. Appunto and Frammenti 1910-1935 (Anthony Pellicano, Rome 1996). Inoltre, è autore delle Monografie: The Portugal in the seventeenth century 'journey from Padua to Lisbon' Domenico Laff . Critical Study (Editorial Presence, Lisbon 1998), Tra Italia e Portogallo . Studi storico-cultural and letterari (Anthony Pellicano, Rome 1999), Esoteric, mitogenic and Political Realism in Fernando Pessoa (Caixotim Edições, Porto 2005)
L'uscita è in libreria scheduled for March 15, 2011. E 'possible to order the book directly from the start site of Editions dell'Urogallo , or by personally contacting the publisher: Marco Bucaioni - Edizioni dell'Urogallo - Corso Cavour, 39i - 06121 Perugia. Phone: +39 075 5720560 - +39 392 7129345
In the same series of editions is compounded published volume Fernando Pessoa, To the memory of President-Re Pais Sidonius, by Brunello De Cusatis.
