Angelo Maria Ripellino (4 December 1923 - 21 April 1978) was an Italian translator, poet, linguist and academic.

[1] In 1947 he enrolled the filmmaking courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; the same year he married Ela Hlochova, a Czech student of Italian literature he had known during a 1946 study travel in Prague, who would who would become his closer collaborator.

[1] He had a key role in popularizing several Russian authors to the Italian public, notably Boris Pasternak and Alexander Blok.

I maestri della regia nel teatro russo del Novecento ("The Trick and the Soul.

[1] He collaborated with several important publications, including Corriere della Sera and L'Espresso, and was consultant for Russian literature for Einaudi publisher.