Cristina Campo

Cristina Campo was the pen name of Vittoria Maria Angelica Marcella Cristina Guerrini (Bologna, April 29, 1923 – Rome, January 10, 1977), Italian writer, poet, and translator.

Collected works

Her poetry and translations were later collected in La tigre assenza, first published in 1991. In 2020, the Nexus Institute published "The Unforgivables", an English translation of Campo's essay "Gli imperdonabili" by Will Schutt. In 2021, an annotated translation of "Gli imperdonabili" by Nicola Masciandaro and Andrea di Serego Alighieri was published in Glossator 11, Practice and Theory of the Commentary, a bilingual volume wholly dedicated to the work of the poet. In 2024, her essay collections Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971) were brought together in a single volume in English translation published by New York Review Books.