Introduction: Translating Gramsci on language, translation and politics / Peter Ives and Rocco Lacorte -- The linguistic roots of Gramsci's non-Marxism / Franco Lo Piparo -- Linguistics and Marxism in the thought of Antonio Gramsci / Luigi Rosiello -- Language from nature to history : more on Gramsci the linguist / Tullio De Mauro -- Linguistics and the political question of language / Stefano Gensini -- Gramsci the linguist / Utz Maas -- Gramsci from one century to another / interview with Edoardo Sanguineti by Giorgio Baratta -- Translation and translatability : renewal of the Marxist paradigm / Derek Boothman -- Aunt Alene on her bicycle : Antonio Gramsci as translator from German and as translation theorist / Lucia Borghese -- On "translatability" in Gramsci's Prison notebooks / Fabio Frosini -- Translations and metaphors in Gramsci / Maurizio Lichtner -- Translatability, language and freedom in Gramsci's Prison notebooks / Rocco Lacorte -- Language and politics in Gramsci / Francisco F. Buey -- Gramsci's subversion of the language of politics / Anne Showstack Sassoon -- Some notes on Gramsci the linguist / Tullio De Mauro -- The lexicon of Gramsci's philosophy of praxis / André Tosel -- Subalternity and language : overcoming the fragmentation of common sense / Marcus E. Green and Peter Ives