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Viva l'Italia: A Regional Romp through Italy. Online exhibition
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‘A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.’ - Dr Samuel Johnson
Italy – what dreams and romantic longings the name conjures up. Florence, Venice, Rome – landmarks of European history and civilization. The country of Caesar, Cicero, Horace, and Virgil: the land which gave birth to Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Dante, Ariosto, and Tasso. The list would be endless if it also encompassed ‘modern’ day celebrities such as Giuseppe Verdi, Enrico Fermi, Sofia Loren, Giorgio Armani, Dino Zoff (considered the best goalkeeper in the history of football), and the controversial Silvio Berlusconi.
Renowned for its architecture, its complex historical past, its literature, fashion, and cuisine, Italy is now sub-divided into 20 regions, where most speak Italian (a Florentine variety of Tuscan). Viva l’Italia: A Regional Romp through Italy is an exhibition that is constructed around images of Italian cities from a 17th century copy of Pietro Bertelli’s Theatro delle Citta d’Italia (1629). By utilising these images, the viewer ‘romps’ through the various regions of the country from Piedmont in the north, to Puglia in the southeast, Sardinia in the west, and Sicily in the southwest. The Republic (formed in 1946) encompasses some 301,338 kilometres. By necessity coverage is selective, an overview that covers most regions, not all cities, and not all facets of this richly diverse country.
Most of the Italian books in this exhibition are from the collections of Esmond de Beer and Charles Brasch, which are housed in Special Collections. Both men thoroughly enjoyed what Italy offered to the world; we are grateful for their passion. Forza Italia!
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Edward Lear (1812-1888) is remembered as creator of nonsense verse. He was also an artist-illustrator and traveller. Italy was a country he kept returning to; indeed, he died in his ‘Villa Tennyson’ at San Remo in western Liguria, north-western Italy. Lear first visited Rome in 1837, and then Naples in 1838; Florence in 1839; Subiaco in 1840; Naples (again) and Sicily in 1847. His <em>Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, &c.</em> (1852) was the result of his journeys through a country that was both beautiful and harsh. While travelling he sketched, and each night he would write up his journal. This is his lithographed sketch of Angevin Castle, the 16th century fortress that sits above the town of Roccella (also Roccella Ionica).
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Edward Lear
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London: R. Bentley
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1852
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Brasch DG975 C15 LD97
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Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria
Calabria
Edward Lear
Italy