Siena, originally uploaded by Esti Solana. I love walking in the streets like this one in the Italian Siena: only houses, almost typical, not a tree in sight, the sloppy street clearly not rising up t...
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. Alexander Herzen, a Russian writer and politician....
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life. Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet....
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish writer....
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly lov...
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. Erica Jong, an American writer and poet....
In Italy, my dear Frago, you are about to see the works of Raphael and Michelangelo; but let me tell you in confidence and as a friend that if you take those fellows seriously, you will be lost, done ...
There is one point in which Italy in an artist’s eye must always have the preference – I mean the school it provides for study; and in this I do not refer merely to the pictures, statues a...
This is also a wonderful place, or rather its’ environs are so. The town itself except the great street of Toledo is beastly, but the Quay (on which I live in an excellent hotel with a noble vie...
They entered Rome, not on a fine day, not on a fine night, but on a dark evening, in dreary weather which makes everything dull and indistinct. They crossed the Tiber without noticing it; they entered...