Meeting Benches World art in all forms

What was your last important trip? When you’re back home, you still had the certainty of departure, or you are immersed in the journey, to search for that part of you that you did not know she yet? You do not like Ulysses, as he was returning home in the same clothes he left, with his eyes the memory of …

From the diary-atlanteillustrato TRAVEL IN ITALY, publisher Meeting Benches (e-book format, available in Italian language and English). A painter of the Italian Renaissance, born in Tuscany in 1420, a pupil of Fra Angelico, has long lived in Florence, by decorating  the church of San Marco. Like many painters of that period, he also was in Rome, by decorating a chapel …

JOURNEY IN HELL: “She begins Dante’s Alighieri, of Florence, Divine Comedy, in which he deals with the penalties and punishments, of defects and merits, rewards and virtues. It begins with the first canticle of the first, the part which is called Hell, in which the author makes introduction to the entire work.” In the middle of the journey of our life, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

IRISH JEWELS The most precious jewels in Ireland, is the Time. The Irish believe that when God made ​​time, he has done enough. This is what we understand by visiting the Emerald Isle, this is what tourists can look over the serene and smiling face of any Irishman. Returning home, any visitor will be stored in their own eyes the …

ISABELLA MORRA: Clipped wings   Seeing that desire beautiful, You have clipped wings, that stood in my heart, cruel Fortune, so that all of your sake I live fast, I will say this style rough and brittle a part of my inner evil caused only by you of these plugs, between these bitter costumes of irrational people, devoid of wit, …

VAGUENESS OF LOVE From the diary-illustrated atlas TRAVEL IN ITALY, published by Meeting Benches in e-book format from March 20, 2014 (English and Italian language versions of) its own page, with a poem and a picture of Veronica Franco: “I am so vague, and so my beloved converse with those who know how to have more opportunity to learn, that, …

VERONICA FRANCO: Certezza di amore   “Se potessi Essere sicuro del Tuo amore per quello Spettacolo Che le parole e la Faccia, Spesso varia anima mantenere Coperta, e se QUESTO mantiene la Mente stessa ha Raccolto le orme di Fuori, in Modo Che Gli ALTRI Non Sono Spesso catturati in Frode, Che paura uscito da me, Che E per QUESTO …

Gli amorini, da Agnolo Poliziano. Oltre intorno alle amorini battute nude qua e là volando: che con le ali di mille colori le rose erano sparsi messa in onda, che riempivano la sua faretra di fiori freschi, quindi la stavano riversando sul letto, come la nuvola che cade rotto fermi sulle ali, e poi giù lo scuotimento.    

MARSILIO FICINO, Italian Renaissance poet: The eyes. The way in which that lovers suffer evil eye we said above, if much this will add to what was said: that mortals then blindside very evil eye, when they frequently direct their eyes to the eye than others, connecting with the lights, and miserable for those you love drink. The eyes are …

STENDHAL SYNDROME Similar to a panic attack occurs when a traveler comes into contact with works of art and places of great beauty. Is in this dimension of alienation that psychologists and psychiatrists are to investigate the chaotic emotional states induced in the visitor. The revelation of the works of art induces a state of extreme agitation, but it is …

ANABASIS – DISPATCH FROM THE INSIDE   No, not a new book, indeed, it has more than two thousand years, but it tells us about the everyday things, the ones that wrap around relentlessly the nature of men. A writer Greek, two thousand years before now, has created an adventure book, a classic of literature, a dip in the emotions, …