Three days in Italy
Leaving London musing sadly that La Colomba knew more about my own city than I did.
Delayed flight, no vegetarian food, late arrival in Rome.
Reading Petrarch in Rome - "Era il giorno ch'al sol si scoloraro / per la pietà del suo Fattore i rai, / quando i' fui preso, e non me ne guardai, / ché i be' vostr'occhi, donna, mi legaro."
Italian landscape from coach to Urbino.
Steepness of Urbino. Narrow streets. The Ducal Palace.
The Pieros - the Flagellation, the Madonna di Senigallia.
The remarkable Studioso - a tiny room with trompe l'oeil intarsa (inlaid wood) representing cupboards of lutes, scientific instruments, books.
The delicious beans at every meal (and the wine).
The early morning journey to Rome through misty mountains.
The splendour of Santa Maria Maggiore.
The Colosseum and Forum, impressive despite the crowds.
The swift flight home, and long delays at Gatwick.
posted by Tony at 5:35 PM
4 Comments:
Lovely...
Specially the Petrarch reading in Petrarch's homeland.
The glass of wine expecting the hand to lift it up with that view, that view!
Yes, the view is rather good. Piero della Francesca uses it in the background of his portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino.
Just out of picture there was a plate with delicious pasta and beans, and grapes.
Why didn't you include it?
sorry, I swore I would never comment on this blog ever again!
But...
VANILLA!!! HELP!!
The food didn;t get included in the photo for artistic reasons (on recollection perhaps I had already finished the food when I took the picture, and the glass of wine was probably my third or fourth)
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