Andrew Frisardi

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Andrew Frisardi (he/him) earned a BA from Boston University and an MFA from Syracuse University. His poetry collections include The Harvest and the Lamp (Franciscan University Press, 2020) and The Moon on Elba (Wiseblood Books, 2023). Frisardi’s poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, New Criterion, Poetry Daily, and other print and online journals.

Frisardi is also a translator of Dante Alighieri. His dual-language critical edition of Dante’s Convivio was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and his annotated translation of Dante’s Vita nova was published by Northwestern University Press in 2012. He has also published translations of the dialect poet Franco Loi (Counterpath, 2008) and the modernist Giuseppe Ungaretti (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004), for which he won the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2004. He won a Guggenheim fellowship in 2013 for his work on Dante’s Convivio. His translations have been published in The New Republic and other outlets.

Frisardi is a critic and independent scholar with essays and reviews published in print and online venues. His books of essays include Ancient Salt: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and the Modern World (Resource Publications, 2022) and Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation (Angelico Press, 2020). Frisardi is a frequent contributor to the Temenos Academy in London, which offers adult education in philosophy and the arts in the light of the sacred traditions of East and West.