Vittorio Sereni

Vittorio Sereni – Viaggio di andata e ritorno / Journey There and Back

El Greco, The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (detail), 1611 I’ll go back down the way we came a while ago when never more beautiful the moon startled you. There remains to me a city close to sleep in earliest springtime. O fire that now you are fading, O confused ashes of countryside that darkens …

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Vittorio Sereni – Anni dopo / Years after

Silvestro Lega, The betrothed, 1869 The splendid the delirious rain has eased, kisses us with rare final droplets. Outside again love is close by me and friendship. And that murmur, till just then almost imploring, from the darkened portico rumbles at my back now, breaks from my past: faces unaltered they’ll be, same as ever, …

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