Leonardo da Vinci workshop, Bacchus (formerly Saint John the Baptist), c. 1510 Stop tormenting yourselves. If you wish to meet me, look for me where I am not; I know no other place. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Smettetela di tormentarvi. Se volete incontrarmi, cercatemi dove non mi trovo. Non so indicarvi altro luogo. This is …
Giorgio Caproni – Dove non mi trovo / Where I am not Read More »
I. Repin, Walk with lanterns, 1879 It won’t even the lantern. Over there, dark is so dark that there is no darkness. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Non potrà nemmeno la lanterna. Là il buio è così buio che non c’è oscurità. Go back to album – G. Caproni
Ettore Tito, With a rose in her lips, 1895 We all get a gift. Then, we don’t remember anymore neither by whom nor who it is. We just keep it – pungent and without amnesty – the thorn of nostalgia. Tutti riceviamo un dono. Poi, non ricordiamo più nè da chi nè che sia. Soltanto …
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El Greco, A boy blowing on an ember to light a candle, 1570 Because I…because I, who live alone in the night, I too, in the night striking a match against the wall, I cautiously light a white candle, inside my mind- I set timid sails in darkness And as my pen’s nib scratches and …
Georges Seurat, Peasant boy sitting in a meadow, 1883 How high pain is. Love is such a beast. Emptiness of the words that dig into emptiness empty monuments of emptiness. Emptiness of the grain that already attained (in the sun) the height of the heart. (Transl. by P. Verdicchio) Com’è alto il dolore. L’amore, com’è …
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Angelo Inganni, Notturno in piazza del Duomo a Milano, c. 1866 In my bones lies another city that consumes me. Over there. I have lost it. A city gray by day and by night a conflagration of lights — a light for each living creature as in a graveyard there is one for each of …
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