लेखक: Stanislao G. Pugliese

Charles Sant”Elia heads Enotria Translations, a boutique translations firm in Manhattan. He studied political science and Italian literature at New York University and political science at the University of Florence before studying law at Pace University. He formerly resided in Naples and Florence and is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a consultant for UNESCO. Sant’Elia is a knight of the Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio. Since 2007 he has served as delegate of the Comitati Due Sicilie of the Associazione Culturale Neoborbonica in the United States and is a member of the Real Circolo delle Famiglie Nobili e Notabili delle Due Sicilie. Sant’Elia has been writing poetry in Neapolitan for twenty-five years and he has translated the scholarly works of linguist Mario Alinei, musicologist Simona Frasca, and Neapolitan poet and songwriter Luciano Somma, among others.