Gaetano Cipolla is a retired professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at St. John's University in New York City.
He was born and raised in Francavilla di Sicilia in Messina Province, Sicily and emigrated to the US in 1955.
Cipolla has written numerous scholarly articles on Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Pirandello, Calvino and others.
Prof. Cipolla has translated several authors from the Sicilian language: Giovanni Meli's The Origins of the World, Don Chisciotti and Sanciu Panza, and Moral Fables and Other Poems; Vincenzo Ancona's Malidittu la lingua /Damned Language; The Poetry of Nino Martoglio; and Antonino Provenzano's Vinissi/I'd Love to Come.
He has also translated Giuseppe Fava's play Violenza (2001), and History of Autonomous Sicily (Legas 2001) by Romolo Menighetti and Franco Nicastro.