In Arquà Petrarca with Foscolo, Lord Byron and the Shelleys (1817-1818)
Sarcophagus containing the remains of Francesco Petrarca in the main square of Arquà From the Euganean Hills, October 11, 1797 …
Author Archives: Massimo Vangelista
The Last Days of Shelley: A Prophecy
The Inevitable Fate There is a sense of inevitability in Shelley’s last letters, as well as an atmosphere of prophecy. …
Giuseppe Mazzini’s Houses in London
When you look up, the eye loses itself in a reddish, bell-shaped vault, which always gives me, I don’t know …
Lord Byron in the Armenian Monastery in Venice
Plaque outside the Monastery in the island of San Lazzaro in Venice “To the memory of the English Poet, LORD …
The Sack of Italy, or How Canova Made a Fool of Napoleon
Anonymous, “Seizing the Italian Relics”, Musée de l’Armée, Paris In 1797, on the anniversary of the 9th Thermidor 1794, the …
Countess Albrizzi’s Venetian Salon, with Foscolo, Canova, and Byron
Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (1755–1842), Portrait of Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi (1792) Not very far from St. Marks’ Square, in one of …
When Italy had the “Fatal Gift of Beauty”
Between the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, an idealised idea of Italy emerged from paintings and …
Joseph Addison talks about Italian Beauty and British Liberty
From: Joseph Addison (1672-1719) A Letter from Italy To The Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax In The Year MDCCI (…) …
Letters from the exile 