ITALY

"I was going on a boat to Venice ... My God, with what emotion I loved the beloved city, after having carried it in my heart for thirty years ... I heard again his quiet, the mysterious flush against the silent palaces, and his nobility tied to a sense of death it enveloped me again: facades of churches, squares and stairways, bridges and calli with their rare passers-by were revealed to me with unexpected and floating features.
The gondoliers exchanged their call. I felt at home ... "(Thomas Mann)

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