Gaetano Cipolla is a retired professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at St. John's University in New York City. He was born and raised in Francavilla di Sicilia in Messina Province, Sicily and emigrated to the US in 1955. He received his Bachelor of Science (1961) from New York University, Master of Arts (1969) from Hunter College (CUNY), and the PhD (1974) from New York University. He joined the faculty of St. John's University in 1974 and retired in 2011.
Cipolla has written numerous scholarly articles on Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Pirandello, Calvino and others. Some of his essays appear in Labyrinth: Studies on an Archetype. He is also the author of a number of very successful booklets such as What Italy Has Given to the World and What Makes a Sicilian? He is President of Arba Sicula, an international organization that promotes the language and culture of Sicily and he is the editor of the journal Arba Sicula (Sicilian Spring) and the newsletter Sicilia Parra (Sicily Speaks).
He is the general editor of three series of books for Legas Publishing: Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula, which has published five volumes; Sicilian Studies, with six volumes; and Italian Poetry in Translation with seven volumes.
Prof. Cipolla has translated several authors from the Sicilian language: Giovanni Meli's The Origins of the World, Don Chisciotti and Sanciu Panza, and Moral Fables and Other Poems; Vincenzo Ancona's Malidittu la lingua /Damned Language; The Poetry of Nino Martoglio; and Antonino Provenzano's Vinissi/I'd Love to Come. He has also translated Giuseppe Fava's play Violenza (2001), and History of Autonomous Sicily (Legas 2001) by Romolo Menighetti and Franco Nicastro.
Cipolla is the U. S. representative of Legas Publishing, a multilingual publishing company, and is based in Mineola, New York.
GaetanoCipolla is a retired professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at St. John's University in New York City...
system is also used extensively in the Vocabolario siciliano and by GaetanoCipolla in his Learn Sicilian series of textbooks and by Arba Sicula in its...
the Sicilian language (often bilingual, in English and Sicilian). GaetanoCipolla has been the president of Arba Sicula (and editor of the journal and...
Queen and Many Barons". A Thousand Years in Sicily (4th ed.). Legas / GaetanoCipolla. p. 70. ISBN 0-921252-17-X. "Donnafugata Tour: Santa Margherita - Sicily...
Drawings (Sicilian/Italian/English trilingual edition) Translated by GaetanoCipolla, (2014) Legas Publishing, ISBN 978-1-939693-01-3 The Divine Kiss/In...
Arabs to the Bourbons (Third ed.). Mineola, NY and Ottawa: Legas / GaetanoCipolla. p. 43. ISBN 9780921252177. Bassiouni, M. Cherif; Schabas, William...
Navone, John J. (1996). The land and the spirit of Italy. Legas / GaetanoCipolla. ISBN 978-1-881901-12-9. Nicolson, Harold (2000). The Congress of Vienna...
Barbara. Good Friday procession (every 4 years) Nativity Play Carnival GaetanoCipolla: American linguist, educator and author, principal of Legas Publishing...
2012. Navone, John J (1996). The land and the spirit of Italy. Legas/GaetanoCipolla. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-1-881901-12-9. Retrieved 1 February 2012. Pinter...
papers and is also used extensively in the Vocabolario siciliano, by GaetanoCipolla in his Learn Sicilian series of textbooks and by Arba Sicula in its...
Arabs to the Bourbons (Third ed.). Mineola, NY and Ottawa: Legas / GaetanoCipolla. p. 43. ISBN 9780921252177. Bassiouni, M. Cherif; Schabas, William...
Sicily: From the Arabs to the Bourbons (third ed.). Mineola NY: Legas / GaetanoCipolla. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-921252-17-7. Jeremy Dummett (2015). Palermo, City...
Treccani". The Poetry of Nino Martoglio, edited and translated by Prof. GaetanoCipolla (1993), Legas. Peppe Nappa is a character of the Commedia dell'arte...
Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 585. Quatriglio, G., Sicily: Island of Myths, Legas/GaetanoCipolla, 2011, p. 11...
(Sicilian/Italian/English trilingual edition) Translated by Marco Scalabrino and GaetanoCipolla (2018) Legas/Cross-Cultural Communications ISBN 978-1-939693-20-4 "David...
Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-01184-1. Cipolla, Gaetano (2007). The Sounds of Sicilian: A Pronunciation Guide. Mineola, NY:...
Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019. Cipolla, Gaetano. "The Lady of the Wheel (La Ruotaia)". Legas. "Hamilton Ontario Sister...
number theory, which flourished in Sicily around 1920 with Gaetano Scorza and Michele Cipolla. Particularly noteworthy is the contribution made by Mignosi...
l'Italia", la lista dei centristi pro-Berlusconi". la Repubblica. Alessandro Cipolla (13 February 2018). "Elezioni, lista Noi con l'Italia chi sono? Sondaggi...
Francesco Faà di Bruno Aureliano Faifofer Antonio Fais Giovanni Taddeo Farini Gaetano Fazzari Emanuele Fergola Nicola Fergola Gaspare Stanislao Ferrari Camillo...
Type Type Unicameral History Founded 25 May 1947 Leadership President Gaetano Galvagno, FdI since 11 November 2022 Structure Seats 70 Political groups...
Rogers, Denver Pyle, Patrick Reynolds United States Revisionist Western Cipolla Colt Enzo G. Castellari Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden, Martin Balsam Italy...
the center of Florence which it had commissioned from architect Antonio Cipolla. The National Bank's renaming was a gradual process, partly because of...
Archived from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022. Cipolla, Alessandro; Imparato, Rosaria (25 October 2022). "Meloni alla Camera,...
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