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| Apenas bajé del tren y salí “a la puerta” vi lo que saqué en esta foto. |
“So much has been said and written about Venice already that I do not
want to describe it too minutely. I shall only give my immediate impression.
What strikes me most is again the people in their sheer mass and instinctive
existence”. J W von Goethe – Italian
Journey – 29 September 1786.
“…a Venetian góndola? That singular conveyance, came down unchanged from
ballad times, black as nothing else on earth except a coffin –what pictures it
calls up of lawless, silent adventures in the slashing night; or even more,
what visions of death itself, the bier and solemn rites and last soundless
voyage! And has anyone remarked that the seat in such a bark, the arm-chair
lacquered in coffin-black, and dully black-upholstered, is the softest, most
luxurious, most relaxing seat in the world?” Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
“What a funny old city this Queen of the Adriatic is! Narrow streets,
vast, gloomy marble palaces, black with the corroding damp of centuries and all
partly submerged; no dry land visible anywhere, and no side-walks worth
mentioning; if you want to go to church, to the theatre, or to a restaurant,
you must call a góndola. It must be a paradise for cripples, for verily a man
has no use for his legs here.” Mark
Twain – The innocents abroad, 1869.
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” Truman Capote – Observer, “Sayings of
the week” 26 November 1961
Caffe Florian, named after its
first proprietor Floriano Francesconi, which was opened in 1720.Its most renown
previous habi-tués have included the playright Goldoni (1707-1793) and the
neo-Classical sculptor Canova (1757-1822).
Visité la Plaza San Marco (donde
las palomas son un atractivo turístico: foto), varias iglesias, el museo
ubicado en la Academia.
“Reclining in my góndola, I suddenly felt myself, as every Venetian
does, a lord of the Adriatic.” Goethe
– Italian Journey
“When
I went to Venice – my dream became my address. “ Marcel Proust – Letter to Madame Strauss.
Recommended Reading Literature
Merchant of Venice W. Shakespeare
Any play of
Goldoni in translation
Italian Journey (1786-1788) J W Goethe WMCollins
1962
Letter of a traveler George Sand
Albertine Dissappeared Marcel Proust
Effie in Venice Unpublished letters of Mrs John
Ruskin 1849-1852
John Murray 1965
The Aspern Papers Henry James 1888
The Wings of the Dove Henry James 1984 (1902)
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann 1971 (1912)
Travels in Italy – Jean Giono
The Quest for Corvo – A J A Symobs 1969 (1934)
The desire and pursuit of the whole – Frederick Rolfe (Baron Carvo)
1993 (1934)
Across the river and into the trees – Ernest Hemingway 1977 (1960)
Thus was Adonis murdered – Sara Caudwell – Collins 1981
Stone Virgin – Barry Unsworth 1986 (1985)
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson 1988 (1987)
Territorial Rights – Muriel Spark 1991 (1979)
The comfort of strangers – Ian McEwan 1982 (1981)
A Venetian theory of Heaven – William Riviare 1993 (1992)
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