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TULLIA DI ARAGONA: Love one time, so slow fire

From the diary-illustrated atlas TRAVEL IN ITALY, the Italian Renaissance as seen through the eyes of Stendhal, a poem and a picture, the e-book, published March 20, 2014 by Meeting Benches, in English and Italian language versions. TULLIA DI ARAGONA: Love one time, so slow fire Love in a time so sluggish fire burned my life, and so full of …

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GASPARA STAMPA: Sweet Spring

From the diary-illustrated atlas TRAVEL IN ITALY, published from the March 20, 2014 (e-book format in Italian and English), Meeting Benches proposes a picture and a poem by the Italian Renaissance: GASPARA STAMPA: Sweet Spring. Now that is back the sweet spring to all the world, she walks away from me solely; and goes away from us in that direction, …

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FINIS TERRAE : AMAZEMENT , WHERE THE WORLD SEEMS TO END

FINIS TERRAE : AMAZEMENT, WHERE THE EARTH SEEMS TO END It is disconcerting feeling, which you are able to understand with difficulty, but only in rare occasions you have first-hand experience, transforming it. It stays in your heart, almost exploding in your chest, because it can be found only on special places on the earth and parts of the life, …

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MARSILIO FICINO: THE LOVE

From the diary-illustrated atlas TRAVEL IN ITALY, an e-book format in Italian and English, which will be published by Meeting Benches with effect from March 20, 2014, a poetry of the Italian Renaissance. MARSILIO FICINO: THE LOVE Finally, in all the love he accompanies the chaos   and goes before the world; raises the things that sleep illuminates the darkness, …

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GAVARNIE , COLISEUM OF NATURE

GAVARNIE , COLISEUM OF NATURE Gavarnie is a French commune of 142 inhabitants, located in the region of Midi- Pyrenees. More than for the settlement, which has only about a hundred people, the place is famous for its location and for the many natural wonders of the municipal territory, especially the famous Cirque de Gavarnie. Victor Hugo wrote of this unique …

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ANTONIO PUCCI: WOMAN

ANTONIO PUCCI: WOMAN From the diary-illustrated atlas TRAVEL IN ITALY e-book format published by Benches Meeting from March 20, 2014 in Italian and English language versions, a poem and a picture of Antonio Pucci, the Florentine Renaissance poet: The female makes a man live happy, and men do nothing without them. Sad is the house where they are not, however, …

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PARK UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN

PARK UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN The Norwegian Government has requested that the cost was reduced to gain access to, and a ticket now costs one euro (about 200 Norwegian kroner), but along with the Midnight Sun, the visitor can observe the promontory of Nordkapp also the Globe, iron, seven stone medallions depicting children in the world and the nearby sculpture …

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THE GATES OF PARADISE

THE GATES OF PARADISE Has been declared by UNESCO a world heritage of humanity. Has been safeguarded by the state of Venezuela as a protected national park, the largest in the world for its size. His name is Parque Nacional Canaima, but those who had the good fortune to cross his door, he realized that the earthly Paradise had to be …

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AGNOLO POLIZIANO: Poetry, One fine morning.

AGNOLO POLIZIANO: One fine morning. From the diary-illustrated atlas TRAVEL IN ITALY, published by Meeting Benches (e-book format, English and Italian versions), Its own page with a picture and a poem by Agnolo Poliziano. I found myself, maidens, one fine morning. But then I had a strip full of flowers, I saw the roses and not just a color: I …

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