Already in the time of Tacitus, the barbarians of Germany looked to the forests of the past as the cradle of their race, just like the myth of Arcadia, in Virgil’s Aeneid, turns to a remote era in which men were born from oaks. Tacitus reminds us that certain woods were the places where “the…
Categoria: Landscape
Walter Benjamin
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…