Valentina Varinelli

The first part of the article reconstructs the wartime genesis and difficult publication history of Monsignor Alberto Castelli’s Italian translation of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935), issued by Bompiani in 1947, on the basis of hitherto unexplored archival documents, including the correspondence between Castelli and Eliot, some of whose letters to the Italian scholar have recently been donated to the library of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan...