JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (1732/1806), FRENCH ROCOCÓ PAINTER: Lightness of light rarefied
SERENADE: Poetry, by Federico Garcia Lorca
SERENADE Along the banks of the river the night is bathing and on the breasts of Lolita die of love the branches. Â Â Â Â Die of love branches. The night naked singing on the bridges of March. Lolita washes her body with brackish water and Nardi. Â Â Â Â Die of love the branches. Glitters in high over the rooftops the …
Read More »I WANT SEATING NEAR YOU: Poetry, by Federico Garcia Lorca
I WANT SEATING NEAR YOU I would sit next to you in silence, but I have not the courage: I’m afraid my heart I go up to my lips. That’s why I speak foolishly and hide my heart behind the words. Taken cruelly my pain for fear you to do the same. My pillow looks at me at night with …
Read More »CARLO CRIVELLI (1435/1495), ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: Shades of Donatello, inside the impressionism perspective
TRIP TO SCANDINAVIA: The ninth section, by Trondheim to Mo i Rana
Welcome, again, in our camper directed towards the great north. Today, along the ninth section of our journey I will accompany you in what is most dramatic and sensational my country is able to give to your sensibility of travelers. As you know, my name is Arne, my land is Norway, but because I love to travel, wherever I’m wonder …
Read More »NOTHING WAS MINE: Poems
When love enters our life, we are surprised, because that sense of merging with your loved one, makes us understand a seemingly simple thing, and quite unusual: love is the only means at our disposal to break the loneliness, often lurking in some moments of our lives. In some poems, this perception ensured by love is fully expressed, so poignant, …
Read More »MYSTICAL, MAGICAL & MAGNIFICENT: Monasteries in Meteora, Greece
At one time, there were 24 peak-top monasteries in the region of Meteora in central Greece. Built on sandstone megaliths that rise up to 1,800 feet from the valley floor, strange but breathtaking landscape that has been sculpted by wind and water over thousands of years. Me and Franco came to see Meteora with my two girls (12 and 9) …
Read More »ANTONIO ALLEGRI / CORREGGIO (1489/1534), ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: The sweetness of expression of the characters and spells perspective
LOVE: Poetry, by Guy de Maupassant
LOVE Love is a brief word, but embraces all the others, because it includes the body, the soul, life and the whole being. We perceive it as well as feel the warm blood, we find out how the air, we carry in ourselves as our thoughts. For us there is nothing more important. (Guy de …
Read More »THE BOYS, THAT THEY LOVE: Poetry, by Jaques Prevert
THE BOYS THAT THEY LOVE The boys who they love kissing each other standing against the gates of the night, and passers passing mark them to finger. But the boys who are in love, there are none, and it is their only shadow that trembles in the night, stimulating the anger of passers. Their anger, their contempt, …
Read More »AS IN A DREAM: Poetry, by Rabindranath Tagore
AS IN A DREAM As in a dream, love comes with silent steps. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Read More »MY SOUL: Poetry, by Nazim Hikmet
MY SOUL My soul, close your eyes slowly, and as you immerse yourself in the water sinks into sleep, naked and dressed in white, the most beautiful of dreams will welcome you. My soul, close your eyes slowly abandoned as over my arms, in your sleep will not forget. Close your eyes slowly, your brown eyes, …
Read More »ANTOON VAN DYCK (1599/1641), FLEMISH PAINTER: The elegance of the portraits, watching Rubens and Titian
I LOVE INSIDE OF YOU: Poetry, by Nazim Hikmet
I LOVE INSIDE OF YOU I love you in the adventure of the ship that goes toward the pole, I love you in the boldness of the great discoveries of the players, I love you in the distant things, I love you in the impossible. Within in your eyes like in a forest full of sun, sweaty and …
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