This article provides a translation of Louvor e Simplificação de Álvaro de Campos (1953) by Mário Cesariny, which was carried out by the students of the Portuguese-Italian Translation Workshop 2022-23 on the occasion of the centenary of the poet’s birth. The text, a parodic reworking of verses that Cesariny produced under the Pessoan heteronym “Álvaro de Campos”, aims to challenge and, at the same time, pay homage to the “Pessoa myth”.…
