on Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Gastronomic Studies Ballerini has worked with the history of Italian gastronomy, which became the subject of his teaching at UCLA between 2005 and 2008[25]. In 2003, he published, with his own introductory essay, the first complete edition in English of Pellegrino Artusi's, Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (University of Toronto Press). In 2004, he published (through University of California Press) the Book of the Culinary Art by Maestro Martino, the first chef of the modern era, whose work, identified only in 1931, dates to the second half of the fifteenth century. An edition of the Italian original, Libro de arte coquinaria, based on four of the five existing manuscripts and edited by Ballerini and Jeremy Parzen, was published by Guido Tommasi Editore in 2001. Since 2012, he has created a series of meetings entitled “Latte e Linguaggio” [Milk and Language]. These rendezvous have taken place in the former dairy (and now municipal library) Chiesa Rossa in Milan. His book Erbe da mangiare (recipes by Ada De Santis, plates by Giuliano Della Casa) was issued by Mondadori in 2008 and republished in March 2020. An English translation, A Feast of Weeds, was published by University of California Press in 2012. For many years, he has been interested the pairing of food and the visual arts, with particular attention to canvases of convivial and religious subjects painted during the Renaissance. Works Poetry collections Eccetera. E, Parma: Guanda, 1972. Che figurato muore, Milan: Sheiwiller, 1988. Che oror l'orient, preface by Giuseppe Pontiggia, Lubrina, 1991. (bilingual poems, in Italian and Milanese dialect) Il terzo gode, with an essay by Remo Bodei, Venezia: Marsilio, 1994. Stracci shakespeariani, introduction by Filippo Bettini, Rome: Quasar, 1996 (bilingual poems, in English and Italian) Uscita senza strada, introduction by Francesco Muzzioli, Edizioni della Battaglia, 2000. Uno monta la luna, Manni, 2001. Cefalonia 43, Milan: Mondadori, 2005. [In 2007, a theatrical adaptation was created by director and actor Marco Rebeschi and was staged and produced by Lo Sguardo Dell'Altro of Modena]. Awarded the Lorenzo Montano Poetry Prize and the Brancati Prize. Se il tempo e matto, Mondadori, 2010. Cefalonia 1943-2001, Marsilio, 2013. Poesie 1972-2015, edited by Beppe Cavatorta, Collana Oscar Poesia, Milan: Mondadori, 2016, . Eccetera. E, Pisa: Diaforia/Il Campano, 2019. Edited Anthologies of Italian and American Poetry Luigi Ballerini, Ricard Milazzo (eds.), La rosa disabitata. Poesia trascendentale Americana 1960-1980,