P.O.V. (Point of View) is Centro Pecci’s programme of special guided tours, inviting visitors to explore exhibitions from fresh perspectives. From November to January, the series focuses on Lorenza Longhi. Villa Delizia: two events offering the opportunity to explore the exhibition alongside guests from different fields and discover new connections between the works and the artist’s practice.
See the exhibition through different eyes.
For the second event in the series, poet, translator and lecturer Carmen Gallo guides visitors through Lorenza Longhi. Villa Delizia, sharing her perspective on the works and the exhibition. Discover the exhibition ↗
Carmen Gallo writes, teaches and translates. Her latest poetry collection is Procne Machine (Einaudi, 2026, shortlisted for the Premio Strega Poesia). In 2025, she published Stanze per una fuga (La Vita Felice), which brings together her work from 2014 to 2024, including Le fuggitive (Premio Napoli 2021). In 2024, she published the photo-text book Tecniche di nascondimento per adulti (Italo Svevo, shortlisted for Fahrenheit RadioTre’s Book of the Year). Her work has appeared in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Icelandic. As a scholar of English literature and translator, she has edited and translated works by Shakespeare, including Romeo and Juliet for Rizzoli (2023), and T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land, published in Italian as La terra devastata, Il Saggiatore, 2021). Her research has also explored English metaphysical poetry. Her latest translation, with Riccardo Frolloni, is Hannah Sullivan’s Three Poems, published in Italian as Tre Poesie by Crocetti (2026). She contributes to the blogs Antinomie and Leparoleelecose2. She teaches English literature at Sapienza University of Rome.
