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“When I seek another word for ‘music’, I never find any other word than ‘Venice’” Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him” Arthur Symons
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“Venice is a work of art, the greatest masterpiece that our species has produced.”Iosif Brodskij, Foundations of incurables, 1989
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“In Venice, when there is the moon, seem to wander in an etching.” Carlo Dossi, Note azzurre, 1870/1907
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“Venice! There is a most admired city, a most celebrated, a most sung by the poets, most desired by lovers, most visited and most famous? Venice! There is a name in human language that has made to dream more than that?”
Guy de Maupassant, Venezia, 1885
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“In Venice, the architecture gives the emotion of music.”
Carlo Dossi, Note azzurre, 1870/1907
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“Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee;
And was the safeguard of the west: the worth
Of Venice did not fall below her birth,
Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.”
William Wordsworth On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, l. 1 (1807)
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“Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.”
Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1818), Canto IV, Stanza 3
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“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty — this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.” Death in Venice – Thomas Mann Ch. 5
