From medieval to Renaissance time, the poets are maintained within two expressive strands: love in the service of a woman (chosen as the centerpiece of his poetic world), and love as a prison of the male heart. In Italy, it is with “Il Canzoniere” by Francesco Petrarca that is the transition between the two eras. Classical antiquity is again a …

WHEN I SEE THE LARK, by Bernart de Ventadorn – When I see the lark move its wings with joy towards the sun, here, forgot herself, abandons herself to the sweetness that goes to the heart. Ah, so much envy immediately takes me, to everyone I see surrounded by joy, which is a source of wonder if soon the desire …

RAFFAELLO SANZIO 1/3 – Pupil of his father Giovanni (and later by Perugino), soon he is one of the most renowned artists. In Urbino there was a school of painting that influenced the painter, and the atmosphere of the place he always retain creative juices. Umbrian constructive influences of Perugino and Pinturicchio, enter into the life of Raffaello, and an …

ANDRE’ AIME’ MASSON 1/3 – In his long life, this master of surrealist painting has brought the fruits of his creativity in many places, such as Venice and Berlin, crossing several personal trials. After World War II, he went to live in Aix-en-Provence, painting landscapes, but the outbreak of World War II he had seen a great sea: the sadness …

PARIS PENDANT LA NUIT > Trois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit. La première pour voir ton visage tout entier, la seconde pour voir tes yeux, la dernière pour voir ta bouche, et l’obscuritè tout entière pour me rappeler tout cela, en te serrant dans mes bras. PARIS AT NIGHT > Three matches one by one lit at …

CHANTER > Quel jour sommes-nous? Nous sommes tous les jours, mon ami. Nous sommes toute la vie, mon amour. Nous aimons et nous vivons. Nous vivons et que nous aimons. Et nous ne savons pas vraiment, ce qu’est la vie. Et nous ne savons pas vraiment, ce que la journée est. Et nous ne savons pas vraiment, ce qu’est l’amour. …

IMMENSE ET ROUGE > Au-dessus du Grand Palais le soleil d’hiver apparaît et disparaît, comme lui mon cœur disparaîtra. Et tout mon sang ira, aller regarder pour toi mon amour, ma beauté, et tu trouverez là où tu êtes. IMMENSE AND RED > Above the Grand Palais the winter sun appears and disappears, like it my heart will disappear. And …

Jacques Prévert was born in Paris in 1900. He left school in 1915, working at various jobs until 1920 when he served in the military in Lorraine. He was a French poet and screenwriter. In 1925, he began to associate with the surrealists, including André Breton and Louis Aragon. His first poems were published in 1930, and in 1931 there …