Alessandro Dell'Aira. Background

Editor, translator, freelance journalist. He was attached to the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon from 1991 to 1993, passing afterwards to chair the «Liceo Italiano» in Madrid. From 1994 to 1996 he was in charge of the «Quaderni della Scuola Italiana», with interventions of Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, Gesualdo Bufalino, Vincenzo Consolo, Claudio Magris, Dacia Maraini, Federico Mayor, Gabriele Salvatores, Fernando Savater, Lucio Villari. He published «O Mocho e o Mago» (Oporto, Afrontamento, 1993), short story about the encounter in Lisbon of the ocultist writer Aleister Crowley and Fernando Pessoa. He edited the first Italian version of Lope de Vega's comedy «El santo negro Rosambuco de la ciudad de Palermo» (Palermo, Palumbo, 1995), Grandezza e magnificenza della città di Lisbona. Dalle carte di Giovan Battista Confalonieri, Segretario del Collettore Apostolico. (Nicolodi, Rovereto, 2005), «Ogni donna è una stella. Aleister Crowley & Jane Wolfe a Cefalù» (Palermo, Torri del Vento, 2016), «Sfidando l'Ignoto» (with Sandro and Salvatore Varzi. Palermo, Torri del Vento, 2017). From 2005 to 2010 he directed the Department of Education of the Italian General Consulate in São Paulo, Brasil. From august 2010 to abril 2012 he was employed as researcher in the Colégio Dante Alighieri of São Paulo, whose history he told in the book «Longo Estudo, Grande Amor» (São Paulo, Annablume, 2011). He publishes the webzine arsenale, devoted to the recovering of works of art, monuments and curiosities of the city of Palermo, and writes in several newspapers, magazines and reviews, as «Kalós», art review, Tuttoscuola, School national magazine, the newspaper «Trentino». .