Marco R. Capelli
Marco Roberto Capelli (or Marco R. Capelli) was born in 1971 in Modena (Italy).
Writer, translator, lyrics writer and poet.
He lived and worked in Ireland, USA and Spain, so he speaks and writes more or less correctly in Italian, English and Spanish.
He’s also the chief editor (and founder) of www.progettobabele.it, free literary magazine whose website has received more than 100’000’000 clicks since 2002.
He is member of SIAE (Italian Author’s Society) since 2003 and writes lyrics for two Metal Groups: Martiria and Power Project (see discography).
He has written several short stories, reviews and articles that have been published by literary magazines. He’s now working at his first novel.
Pubblications
Il gigante (The Giant short novel) Ediz. Il Club degli Autori (1998);
Gli Dei (The Gods short story) is part of the anthology “Abitando il racconto” (ISBN 9788881672271);
La strada (The road short story) is part of the anthology “N.O.I.R. Quindici passi nel buio” (ISBN 9788889862148);
Risonanza (Resonance short story) was published on FUTURO EUROPA 44 (Perseo Editore Bologna 2006);
Dossier: Le riviste letterarie (Literary magazines a brief introduction article) was published on WMI (Writers Magazine Italia) n.4 (Delos Editore)
La strega (The witch short story) Originally published in the antology Le Vendicatrici (Cut-Up Edizioni 2013 ISBN:9788895246314), also available on Amazon Kindle.
The e-book “Il gigante ed altre storie tristi” (The Giant and other sad stories) is available for free here (http://www.romanzieri.com/php/clickredir.php?Url=http://www.superlibri.com/capelli-gigante.lit) and it has already downloaded more than 5’000 copies.
As editor/translator:
Da D’Annunzio a Pirandello di Mario Puccini (together with Carlo Santulli and Francisco Josè Diaz) – Ediz. Fondazione Rosellini (2007)
Interviews:
As chief editor of Progetto Babele, he had a chance to interview several interesting writers as: Valerio Evangelisti, Corrado Augias, Michael Hoeye, Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, Giuseppe Lippi, Ugo Malaguti, Tobias Jones, Tullio Avoledo and Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
All the interviews appeared on the PB literary magazine.
Blogs:
http://connivenzeletterarie.wordpress.com/
http://journeythroughmadness.wordpress.com/
Discography
With Martiria:
The eternal soul (Hellion Records BR 2004)
The age of the return (Underground Symphony IT 2005)
Time of Truth (Underground Symphony IT 2008)
On the way Back (My Graveyard IT 2011)
Roma S.P.Q.R. ((My Graveyard IT 2012)
R-Evolution (Rocksector UK – Hellion Records BR 2014)
feat. ex Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice.
With Power Project :
Dinosaurs (Powerzone Records IT 2006).
The group is composed by: Carl Sentance (ex Krokus, voice), Carlos Cavazo (ex Quiet Riot, guitar), Jeff Pilson (ex Dokken, bass) and Vinny Appice (ex Black Sabbath, he also worked with John Lennon and Yoko.
