Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Venetian Epigrams
Benvenuto Benvenuti, The birth of Venus, 1907 Thou art amazed, and dost point to the ocean. It seems to be burning;flame – crested billows in play dart round our nightmoving bark.Me it astonisheth not, – of the ocean was born Aphrodite, –did not a flame, too, proceed from her for us, in her son? Tu …