Fausto Cercignani

Italian scholar, essayist and poet

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An Italian scholar who moves across philology, essays, and verse—quiet in the wider world, but entrenched in certain academic and literary circles where precision in language matters.

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Fausto Cercignani was born March 21, 1941, in Italy. He built a career that straddles scholarship and creative writing, working as both essayist and poet alongside his academic work. His output reflects a particular devotion to the mechanics of language—philological rigor paired with literary expression. The result is a body of work that sits at the intersection of analysis and art, recognized more in specialized quarters than in popular view.

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If you talk to the shadows, at least you know them well and the words, all of them, unfold themselves with ease on muddled walls and streets, when dusk comes on.

— Adagio (2004)

Fausto Cercignani

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