Lucas Cranach, Lucretia, 1530 Here I am, take me-or stab me to death. Stab the heart, stab the brains, stab the lungs, the kidneys, the viscera, the eyes, the ears. If only one organ be left alive you are doomed-doomed to be mine, forever. Ecco qui, prendimi… Oppure pugnalami a morte. Trafiggi il cuore, trafiggi …
Francisco Goya, The Third Of May 1808 In Madrid: The Executions on Principe Pio Hill, 1814 Il mio peccato è terribilevolli colmare di stelleil cuore dell’uomo.Per questo qui tra le sbarre,in ventidue inverniho perso le mie primavere.Prigioniero dall’infanziae condannato a morte,i miei occhi stanno prosciugandola loro luce contro le pietre.Ma non c’è ombra d’arcangelovendicatore nelle …
Thomas Jones Barker, The faithful knight, 1860 Alms to the highwayman in pursuit!Evil eye to the luring eye!Blade against blade with the avid swordsman!-My soul is not in a state of grace! –I am the fool of Pamplona,afraid of the Moon’s laughter,hypocritical, in black crepe…Horror! is everything, then, beneath a candle snuffer?I hear a noise …
Gustave Moreau, The travelling poet, c. 1888 I didn’t know what a poet was when I was leading chariots to war and the horse Xanto was speaking to me. But the young age of Hector and Achilles passed as a comet. I have become nothing but a man: now my soul is seeking itself in …
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 »
Hermanus Posthumus, Landscape with Roman Ruins, 1536 La nostra misera gloria é una pingue colonia per il vorace appetito dei nostri nemici. I vermi già ci divorano da vivi. E tra poco di noi non rimarrà che il lor rifiuto, l’ultima, imponderabile materia che in aria e in luce si tramuterà. O sublime residuo! Intangibile …
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