Naples (…) The fantastic descriptions of numerous travelers have colored the city. In reality it is gray: a gray or ocher red, a gray white. It is absolutely gray in comparison to the sky and the sea. Which contributes not a little to take away the pleasure from the visitor. Because for those who do Continue
Italy
Grace Deledda
“We are Spaniards, Africans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Pisans, Byzantines, Piedmontese. We are the yellow gold broom that falls on the rocky paths like great lighted lamps. We are the wild solitude, the immense and profound silence, the splendor of the sky, the white flower of the cistus. We are the uninterrupted kingdom of the Continue
Migrants and sermons
For their reading, the survival of daily newspapers rests on well-turned-over insights, on-site correspondents and, above all, on topics of general interest.Themes always reiterated, even without the support of the news. One of these is numerical immigration, we don’t count its branches. But what do we want? Wars are not waged to move borders – Continue
Marguerite Yourcenar
NOTEBOOKS This book was conceived, then written, in whole or in part, in various forms, between 1924 and 1929, between my twenties and twenty-five years. Those manuscripts have all been destroyed. They deserved to be. Found in a volume of Flaubert’s correspondence, much read, much emphasized around 1927, the unforgettable sentence: “When the gods were Continue