EXPRESSIONS OF THE RENAISSANCE: A LOOK THAT COMES FROM AFAR
GREEK ISLANDS IN MAY: Wreaths and wild garlic soup mageritza and joy
Of course, even in Greece life follows the rhythm of the seasons. The holidays, a few special places, have their roots in ancient times, when they celebrated the harvest of grapes, wheat and olives. This is important to keep in mind when you decided to go to this fascinating destination. Where and when. In this month, May is filled with …
Read More »WAITING FOR YOU: Poetry, by Paul Valery
WAITING FOR YOU I lived of waiting for you. My heart slow, was just your steps. (Paul Valery) http://www.amazon.com/Art-Poetry-Bollingen-XLV-Vol/dp/0691018804/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.it/Opere-scelte-Paul-Val%C3%A9ry/dp/8804614021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430907348&sr=8-1&keywords=Poesie+Val%C3%A9ry%2C+Paul
Read More »HANS MEMLING (1440/1494), GERMAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: Melancholy shades of refined elegance
WITH EVERY GOODBYE, YOU LEARN: Poetry, by Jorge Louis Borges
WITH EVERY GOODBYE, YOU LEARN With every goodbye you learn. And you learn that love not lean on someone, and the company is not security. And you begin to learn that kisses are not contracts, and the gifts are not promises. (Jorge Luis Borges) http://www.amazon.it/Jorge-Luis-Borges-Vita-Poesia/dp/2296020615 http://www.amazon.com/Borges-Selected-Poems-Jorge-Luis/dp/0140587217
Read More »DOMENIKOS THEOTOKOPOULOS – EL GRECO (1541/1614), SPANISH RENAISSANCE PAINTER: Shades of mannerism, between Venice and Toledo
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) …
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