Posted 14 years ago
vetraio50
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Memories of Italy!
I found this charger only yesterday.
It was not cheap but I had to have it!
It is huge: 60 cm in diameter or nearly 24 inches!
I nursed it on an eighty minute bus ride to get it home.
I wondered how the original owner got such a large piece safely back to Australia. It's more than just the usual tourist piece that you put in your hand luggage.
Some of my fondest memories of Italy are of the Amalfi coast.
On the costa d'Amalfi south of Napoli is the town of Vietri sul Mare.
Vietri is famous for its production of tin-glazed pottery.
This is a scene of the tourist town of nearby Positano painted by Landi 'o7.
On the reverse is the name of the studio: Romolo Apicella.
Romolino died in 2009. He was known as one of the "maestri" of Italian ceramics who worked with Guido Gambone and Giovannino Carrano.
Other great painters worked with him in his "laboratorio":
Mario Carotenuto, Renato Barisani, Ignazio Moncada, Susanna Dölker, Virginio Quarta, Mario Signorino, Matteo Sabino and others.
While researching this piece I read a tribute to Romolino Apicella by Sigismondo Nastri that discusses "memoria" - memory and memories.
Tema di questo blog, l’ho dichiarato all’inizio, è il ricordo: “l’unico paradiso – dicevo, citando Jean Paul – dal quale non possiamo venir cacciati”. E se è vero – lo scrive Ungaretti – che “il ricordare è segno di vecchiaia” (è il caso mio: sto per compiere 74 anni), è ancora più vero, come afferma Giorgio Pasquali, che “chi non ricorda, non vive”.
- Memory is the only Paradise that we can never be thrown out of. J.P.
- Memory is a sign of old age. Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Those who don't remember, don't live. Giorgio Pasquali
Ungaretti is one of my favorite poets and I suggest him to everyone.
Giorgio Pasquali too was part of my university education here in Sydney nearly 40 years ago ....
....... (è il caso mio: sto per compiere 61 anni).
This is what I call a "keeper"!
Thanks ozmarty and potrero for your comments.
Many thanks BeauxPurdy!
That's an old one, Sean!
Many thanks!
It is huge!
Two feet across!
Many thanks mustangtony!
I now am having great memories of Italy!!
Thanks Don.
Stuning and this is a Keeper:)!
Thanks again, SEAN!
Many thanks AGHCOLLECT & NORDICMAN !!!!!
Many thanks BRATJDD !!!!!!
Many thanks HO2CULTCHA !!!!!
Whoppa!! Love it ;-)
Many thanks SURFDUB & PATSEA too !!!!!!!
Many thanks ANTIQUEROSE !!!!!!!!
Many thanks CAPERKID !!!!!!!!!
New pix !!!!
Greta size..love it!...:-)
Many thanks INKY !!!!
It is a BIGGIE !!!
Many thanks FLEAFINDER !!!
Cinque Terre!! nice!
Many thanks RADEGRUNDER & HO2CULTCHA !!!
Many thanks DLPETERSEN !,!,!,!
Many thanks WORTHIT2 & NEWFLD !.!!.!!!.!!.!
Come questa pietra
del S. Michele
così fredda
così dura
così prosciugata
così refrattaria
così totalmente
disanimata
.
Come questa pietra
è il mio pianto
che non si vede
.
La morte
si sconta
vivendo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZe8j-yOcg
Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie.”
why is this poem created in the adverbial style ( d,autunno) in stead of the adjectivum way( autunnale)because then it can be used as an estrapolazione comparativa
even when autumn is an ostantivo the d,esprit of the poem poem estrapolazione comparativa
the poem is actually stylistically forma di stato, but it losing layers when the perception aint an extrapolation
Is Soldati one of his earliest ????
In a movement away from Petrarchism, that word 'come' is 'the problem'.
Hanging onto life precariously. Being and not being.
A return to noun-adjective poetry is what inevitably followed, no ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZe8j-yOcg
no solution is probably to maintain the ettasillabi
Many thanks NEWFLD !!!!!