Telemaco Signorini, Pastures in Castiglioncello, 1861 You stood straight and happy at the door the wind opened to the countryside. Drenched in light poised in the day, at the time of golden wasps when the elder’s marrow sweetens. We walked barefoot through the ditches then, we measured the sun’s heat by the prints left on …
Leonardo Sinisgalli – Eri dritta e felice / You stood straight and happy Read More »
Nicholas Kalmakoff (1873-1955), Greyhound with Nude Witch Forgotten flowerbeds, grassy-yellow,a gloomy murmur rouses you, allusion to other summers, blue-purple beetle,whilst uttering cryptic noumena:everything was, will be and is in a circle: therefore it will always beinto the endless oldnessand sparkle of ages, into the snake. Aiuole obliate gialle d’erba, saun cupo brusio smuovervi, allusionead altre estati, …
Italo Calvino – Aiuole per Queneau / Flowerbeds to Queneau Read More »
Marc Chagall, Over the town, 1918 Take life lightly, for lightness is not superficiality, but a gliding over things from above, without letting things weigh on your heart. Prendete la vita con leggerezza, che leggerezza non è superficialità, ma planare sulle cose dall’alto, non avere macigni sul cuore. Go back to album – I. Calvino
Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the front, 1866 Come on here, peach-color cheeked girl, come on here, dawn-color cheeked girl and I hope I’m able to tell you my life when I was your age. In the curfew hours, the German troops ruled the town: we are ready. They who don’t want to bow their heads …
Italo Calvino – Oltre il ponte / Beyond the bridge Read More »
Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Don Quixote, 1989 Some might expect that with the Viscount entire again a period of marvellous happiness would open; but obviously a whole Viscount is not enough to make all the world whole. Forse ci si aspettava che, tornato intero il visconte, s’aprisse un’epoca di felicità meravigliosa. Ma è chiaro che …
Italo Calvino – Il visconte dimezzato / The Cloven Viscount Read More »
René Magritte, Pandora’s Box, 1951 Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear. Lasciatemi così. Ho fatto tutto il giro e ho capito. Il mondo si legge anche all’incontrario. Tutto è chiaro. Go back to album – Italo Calvino
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