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Travel in Italy. http://www.amazon.it/Viaggio-Italia-Charles-L-Montesquieu/dp/8842047139  Charles L. de Montesquieu, examines and 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. He, a politician and diplomat, scrutinizes the United Italians of his time, but anchored to their decline, …

Travel in Italy. http://www.amazon.it/Diari-viaggio-Italia-Grecia-Turchia/dp/8862612222/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&qid=1420197195&sr=8-49&keywords=viaggio+in+italia Virginia Woolf, novelist, essayist and activist British – died aged 59, in 1941. Among his novels, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. Among his works, translated into over fifty languages, her diaries through Italy start of the twentieth century. There are many ways to write travelogues, but his is absolutely original, because she moves away …

Travel in Italy.  http://www.ibs.it/code/9788887804607/chateaubriand-f–reneac/viaggio-italia.html FR de Chateaubriand, the travel writer, politician and French diplomat, dies in Paris at age 80, in 1848. With him (and his travels), was born on French literary Romanticism. On his trip to Italy, visiting Rome and the Roman countryside, going to Naples to Vesuvius and the mysterious archaeological sites that surround the volcano. The Italian …

Travel in Italy. http://www.amazon.it/Goethes-Travels-Italy-Residence-Fragments/dp/0548168172/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420199683&sr=8-1&keywords=travel+in+italy%2C+goethe The title of a book by JW von Goethe, his travelogue in the “land where the lemon trees bloom and foliage dark fulgono oranges gold. Because where there is much light, there is also plenty of shade. “In 1832, on his deathbed, he took leave from the world, this man of 83 years – reminiscent of …

Imagine a thousand-year history, wrapped in bright flashes of civilization, but also the brutality of so many gray areas. Imagine flipping through hundreds of pages of a book, a writer can create for you real-world scenarios, throbbing stages of the protagonists of the wonderful civilization. Imagine, between those words and those words, to observe and understand the meaning of “chains” …

The veil of hypocrisy has been ripped apart, when she was accused of having committed adultery, considered by her community as the most unpardonable sin. Perhaps, you think that this novel is – like many others – a common history of extramarital love. You are wrong, because the author of the book has been able to offer seemingly ordinary human …

Flying in the sky you can only imagine fairy-tale happy with downcast eyes looking at clouds and landscapes, along with the memory of the great passions of your life. The ultimate experience of this kind, was the one that I tried on my last flight from Ponta Delgada – Azores Islands – Canada. During the trip I made ​​friends with …

The Diary of a life, is the one written by an illiterate italian  man, born in 1899. That document was written by Vincenzo Rabito with an old typewriter, when he was over 70 years of age. He writes – in 7 years – 1027 pages, which recount his life. Only after his death, his son Giovanni, finds what his father …

“I Am Vertical, but I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil, sucking up minerals and motherly love, so that each March I may gleam into leaf, nor am I the beauty of a garden bed. Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me, …

Now, she is waiting for us under two elms in Sussex. Before visiting the Monk’s House of Virginia Wolf, we must remain a little next to those trees, because it is from that roots that she lives every year. They remind us of the happiness of a daughter  much loved, the sadness of a girl raped, but also the celebrity …