Venice a traveller's reader Marco Polo e qui conosce l’estroso scrittore

e qui conosce l’estroso scrittore Rustichello da Pisa

poetico e spiritoso

riaccendono i desideri messi a tacere

a risalire l’arcipelago d’Indonesia

Durante una sosta a Capraia per un’avaria la comunità navigante si confronta

Venice a traveller's reader Marco Polo e qui conosce l’estroso scrittoreHenry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly propped on its long row of thick legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner,