No matter the trip, as long as the horizon is vast.

Meeting Benches, focuses the reader’s attention in Renaissance Italy, proposing the pages of a illustrated atlas diary where you find painters and sculptors of an unforgettable era. In the pages of the book, their works and words relive every day of the year. If you like, other four literary nuances written by special writers, open the doors of in the formation processes mental and emotional of that travellers.

Travel in Italy it’s the title of a book by JW von Goethe illustrating his travelogue in the land where the lemon trees bloom and born gold oranges. Because where there is much light, there is also plenty of shade. In 1832, on his deathbed, he took leave from the world remembering his trip to Italy, asking one last thing: more light. Travel in Italy, it’s a book by FR de Chateaubriand, the travel writer and French diplomat. With him (and his travels), visiting Rome and the Roman countryside, going to Naples to Vesuvius and admiring the mysterious archaeological sites that surround the volcano, was born on French literary Romanticism.

Travel in Italy it’s a book by Virginia Woolf, British novelist and activist. Among her works (translated into over fifty languages), her diaries through Italy start of the twentieth century. There are many ways to write travelogues, but her is absolutely original because she moves away from the descriptions of the eyes, giving priority to those of the mind. In its pages, the appearance is broken, reality and enlightened. He, a politician and diplomat, scrutinizes the Italians of his time. Charles L. de Montesquieu, into his Travel in Italy describes the social scene and the intrigues consistorial, admires the beauty of women Florentine and Venetian, is questions the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro, along with the misery of the Neapolitans.

Before leaving for your trip to Italy, you can read one of these books, even taking into account a particular route Meeting Benches offers you an “author’s journey” through images that accompanies the curiosity of your eyes in four Italian cities (Modena and Parma, Pavia and Milan), where many men have sprouted the originality of their creative vein. The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of these artists and that other people enjoy their works. To pursue this issue, you can digit: http://meetingbenches.com/2015/01/travel-in-italy-four-literary-nuances-in-the-formation-processes-mental-and-emotional-as-many-travelers/