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Guido Piovene

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“Anti-Jewish persecution is only one of the aspects of racism in the world, but it was its most horrible expression.”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On If I were honest These films in which an ingenious plot, full of gimmicks and misunderstandings, takes place in an imaginary town of twentieth-century houses, millionaires, butlers they have now become our specialty and it is difficult to see a truly bad one. [...] The director Bragaglia also showed accuracy, measure and security of cut, achieving his intent, which was to entertain. From Corriere della Sera , March 4, C.E.1942; quoted in If I were honest, cinematografo.it.”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On The 3 eagles It is a kind of on the Caserta Air Force Academy, in which a slight plot has been inserted. [...] It is a film that runs smoothly and is expertly conducted: the acting, in which young people from the School and young people from the G.I.L. participated, proceeds without a hitch; and under the good craftsmanship what is not entirely original in the plot remains concealed.”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A virtue is always a transformed vice. We must have the courage to admit that every virtue is derived from vice.”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Traveling should always be an act of humility.”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bolzano It is opulent, modern. But its beauty is Gothic: the long streets lined with arcades, embellished not so much by this or that building, as by the movement of the corners and protrusions, which creates theater backdrops, plays of light. (p. 9)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] get to know Palladio, the Basilica, the Loggia del Capitanio, the Rotonda, the Teatro Olimpico, the Palazzo Chiericati and the others through studies is an imperfect knowledge. You have to see it in Vicenza. (p. 49)”
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“It is the imagination of the Friulians that their land, with the mountains of Carnia, the hills of Udinese, the plains, the lagoon landscapes along the coast, the different races and the bright colors of a time older than ours, is in itself a universe in its variety. Roman Aquileia, Venetian Udine and Cividale Longobard... (p. 60)”
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“Verona was Roman, Gothic, then Byzantine and Lombard. It was held by the Carolingians and the German emperors; it was a glorious Commune and a glorious Signoria. She was a Scaliger, a Visconti, a Venetian; The change was rapid, and each phase superimposed its mark on the other. In every historical phase it played a dominant role, due to its strategic and mercantile importance, as a great fortress and crossroads of arteries between Italy and the Germanic world. For variety of styles, none of which prevails, Verona has no equal among Italian cities except Rome. (p. 78)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the affection still lingers on Old Genoa, which remains the most real, alive and basically modern. Leaning against terraces that slope down to the slopes, the houses seem to be erected one on top of the other; they all seem to push themselves to the side as much as they can, like the plants of a forest, in search of light; It would seem that a single spiral staircase, inside them, can lead us from the port to the top of the hills. At the top, the new skyscrapers match the vertical appearance of the city. In the crowd there are small gardens of casbah, oleanders, magnolias. (p. 221)”
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“Almost all Italian cities were made and rebuilt over the centuries. But the houses of Old Genoa, in a special way. Rather than bearing the signs of transformation, they hide them with avarice. Their walls are ossuaries of styles, chests of vestiges; It is enough to pierce a wall to find a terracotta window under the plaster, here a bas-relief or a fresco. They are walls full of ghosts among swarms of lively people. (p. 222)”
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“Parallel to Via Gramsci, higher up, but in continuous symbiosis with the port, runs via Prè, narrow, long, the most popular in Genoa, and perhaps the most Genoese. Although it lies close to the markets and the Stock Exchange, many of its inhabitants never leave it, having too much to do there. Frying, cakes, smuggling to the minute, a subject too important to pass over in silence. (p. 222-223)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Genoese are savers, workers, producers and prudent. Not producers in the way of the Milanese, too much of a player for Genoa and inclined to confuse business with adventure. A moralistic idea of work predominates in this port; Therefore, at least in some, there is a fear of earning too much, that is, of being gamblers, people, according to moralists, exposed to certain ruin. They hide the wealth even more than the Piedmontese; I know rich people who have a large number of employees, but they seem ashamed of it, and they don't see them much. Wealth pours into the home. (p. 224)”
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“Genoa is a tough city that delights in being sentimental. She imagines herself rough, but sweet in secret. The good-hearted misanthrope is an important character in the dialect comedy that she plays in life. A good Genoese must never be moved, but once he turns his back he must always wipe away a tear surreptitiously. (p. 225)”
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“The port of Genoa is one of the most perfect in Europe; There is no commodity that cannot be quickly unloaded and embarked. (p. 232)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A typical reaction of the Genoese producer in the face of the crisis is the moralistic one: "I work from morning to night". Adriano Olivetti in Ivrea spoke to me about this moralism-sorrow of Italian industry, this national fetishism for fatigue, Sunday work and little sleep; in no city is it greater than in Genoa; It is opposed to the crisis, which is therefore suffered as an injustice. Never as in Genoa have I welcomed so many testimonies of people who always work and never sleep. (p. 235)”
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“Cesena This pretty town, surrounded by beautiful orchards, and therefore in spring surrounded by a cloud of white and pink trees, leaning against a hill and dominated by a fortress which includes it in part, is also known in the chronicle of the last wars, because it gave a good number of airmen gold medals. There I collected a lot of that Romagna color, which I then poured into these pages only in a small part. (pp. 318-319)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rigor of the Tuscan landscape emerges in plaghe where, as around Siena and Volterra, the whitish clay shines through the vegetation, fixing as in a diamond the contours of a clear, hard and supremely perfect landscape. Thus an intellectual landscape, imbued with intelligence, which seems to think itself around man and in the highest way. (p. 360)”
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“The attachment to the district has nothing to do with ideas, with the political party, with interests. It depends exclusively on the place of birth, on the atavistic, on everything that is prenatal; It is not thought, but passion contracted with the simple coming into the world. The man from Siena feels, most profoundly of all, in front of his own Contrada, what was called "the demon of belonging". (p. 387)”
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“A Siena In the days of the race everything is suspended, appetite as well as love and public administration. [...] In the evening [after the Palio], there are two Siene. Light, wine and jubilation in the victorious district and in the allies. But if you peek into the enemy's country, you think you are in an abandoned city; The windows and doors are locked, darkness, silence and mourning. (pp. 387-388)”
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“The beauty of Naples grows day by day, week by week, as it discovers its secrets. Until one comes to understand that this is truly the most beautiful gulf on earth. (p. 430)”
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“The timetable in Naples can be a practical necessity, never an intimate necessity. You abandon it when you no longer need it. (p. 430)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Children, "creatures" are swarming. Even in average restaurants, there are few patrons without children around. Naples is a lactating and suckling city, perpetually pregnant. A Neapolitan demigod is love; In the popular consciousness, love is redeemed through creation. (p. 432)”
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“Naples is not a city for purists. I see a small baroque church, which carries the statue of an angel halfway up to the same height, and extends on the same floor with the window and balcony of an unpretentious house. On the balcony stands a woman, elbow to elbow with the statue of the angel; this is really Naples; Let the house and the balcony be torn down, and the church will also have become sloppy. In all cities, but especially in Naples, it is clear that art is not only made up of what we call works of art. (p. 433)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is an accent that I have often heard resonate in Naples in a different form. An enchantment in living, but combined with the implication that living has something painful for itself. There is a kind of pendulum between that enchantment and that hidden implication: you never know which one will prevail. (p. 437)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Naples, as in Paris, it is difficult to hear, at least in conversation, those absolute, radically negative judgments that are heard elsewhere; as in Paris, the tendency is rather towards absolution, naturally with a somewhat skeptical undertone, and without delving too deeply; There is always, in the judgments, a humor and a politeness of worldly capital. (p. 443)”
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“Just as they have found a way to live with saints, miracles, science and technology, these people live in confidence with occult forces and cosmic powers. Everywhere he juggles with his mischief, like the little boat on the waves of the sea. This is also why I believe that the volcano of Naples, like the archaeological excavations of the Neapolitan area, have no equivalent anywhere in the world: everything in Naples is humanized twice. (pp. 464-465)”
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“A splendid legacy of Bourbon rule, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples|National Museum]] is inside the soul of Naples, and a foreigner notices it more than a Neapolitan himself. [...] Roman life here loses all academic solemnity, and approaches with a loquacious realism; confidence takes the place of reverence; you couldn't think of a museum like this if not in Naples [...] (pp. 465-466)”
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“It may be that Neapolitan cuisine, as one gastronome told me, is poor city cuisine; a primordial cuisine, born from the three elementary products of the land and water, wheat, vegetables and fish; Played on the variations of three foods, pasta, fish and the ancient pizza. Many foreigners do not like the cuisine of Naples because, led by different habits, they never discover it. But, when it is good, it contains, at the same time, antiquity and nature; it leads to communion with nature and with a remote past; It's simple and mythological. (p. 473)”
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“There were those who told me that the two gardens of Ravello, at Villa Rufolo and at Cimbrone, are the most extraordinary gardens in the world together with those of Charleston in South Carolina; And it is right in the sense that neither one nor the other has equivalents elsewhere. Perhaps the gardeners in Ravello were influenced by the British. Of course, they have acquired the art of matching very different colors by throwing them haphazardly, as if on a palette, refraining from overly drawn flower beds. They are gardens, those of Ravello, romantic, of a brilliant scapigliatura. (p. 477)”
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“There is a greater civic and historical pride in Benevento than in the other provincial cities of Campania. (p. 496)”
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“After the fall of Rome, Benevento had another period of splendour under Lombard rule, and was the most important Lombard fief in the South. Under Rome, and in the Middle Ages, it was a great center of commercial traffic between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas. The people of Benevento care about that distant background of internationalism. The very names, scholars tell me, in the documents in the archives, show that the families came from all over; the population had an international composition, and Benevento something of the metropolis. (p. 496)”
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“Today Benevento is largely a brand new city with oases of beautiful monuments. Even in the remnants of what was once the intellectual aristocracy of the South, alive although numerically restricted, I have noticed here a passion for art, a defense of the artistic and archaeological heritage, which are less common in the North of Italy. It is that humanistic passion that in the South of Italy now threatens to be shipwrecked, but which here is kept awake, as I said, also by civic pride. (pp. 496-497)”
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“[...] the Arch of Trajan, perhaps the most beautiful and harmonious of the existing Roman arches, more beautiful than those of Rome. And it is also a strangely modern arch, since you can see Trajan in the bas-reliefs dedicated to social and welfare works. (p. 497)”
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“Italy, with its landscapes, is a distillation of the world, the Marche of Italy. (p. 508)”
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“A trip to the Marche region, not hurried, leads to see wonders. (p. 513)”
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“Wherever you feel the space. Therefore The Eagle is gay. Located at over 700 meters, the highest, if I'm not mistaken, among the Italian provincial capitals after Enna and Potenza, it is a city that breathes. The gaze, as soon as it finds an opening, immediately goes far away, with the immediacy of a submerged body that comes to the surface, up to the Gran Sasso and the Sirente, dominating the vast basin. (pp. 557-558)”
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“[...] about the Alpine municipalities, I will say in passing that one, Capracotta, is the highest of the Apennine municipalities, and therefore the winter is closed by snow and ice. (p. 575)”
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“Palermo The design of the mountains and rocks surrounding the port, tending to ochre and violet, on the waters of a deep blue, as contemplated by the Pilgrim, is less sweet, less tender, but purer than that of the mountains surrounding Naples. As in Greece, in Sicily nature has remained stuck in eternal models, and instead men have changed. Contrast makes nature even higher and farther away; The soul of the beholder is forced into a kind of perpetual seesaw. (p. 585)”
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“The encounter with nuraghe art takes place first in Cagliari, in the National Archaeological Museum. Here it can best be compared with foreign civilizations. In fact, the Roman department is also important, and even more so than the Punic one, with its sensual and cruel divinities. But the Nuragic department stands out from the rest and marks Sardinia better. There is the rare case of a museum without repetition elsewhere, embedded in this land like nature and customs. (p. 707)”
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“The Lucania is a part of the South, which suffered acutely from isolation, from a very long decadence, from an ungrateful land. [...] Many villages received water and electricity only after C.E.1945, and others only in recent years the road; Recent statistics indicated that a good half of the population was illiterate. However, Lucania produced numerous geniuses, some of great importance. She possesses in abundance the virtues that we will call ancient, being industrious, strong-willed, quiet, with a deep feeling of family. (pp. 737-738)”
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“It seems that Matera overlooks an uncovered and inhabited subsoil, which together forms a larger city. Such a gathering of semi-cavemen, in which the existence of prehistory is uninterruptedly prolonged, has no parallel in Europe, and is among the Italian landscapes that generate the most amazement. Crisscrossed by rocky valleys, Matera is a kind of Siena of the South, more remote in time [...] (p. 747)”
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“Puglia is our region where the East is most felt. The people of Bari remember as a recent fairy tale the years in which the Albanians crossed the sea laden with gold coins; since the Albanians then considered Bari their market and even went down there to buy a hat. (p. 767)”
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“Bari refutes the clichés about the South. Commercial and bourgeois, it has few traditions of baronial and landed aristocracy, unlike, for example, Lecce and Brindisi. The typical average Bari man is sparse, exact, dedicated to his business, fond of old administrative methods and savings. You can see him in the shop, until late at night, through the door ajar, concentrating on the accounts. (p. 768)”
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“Rieti is a beautiful city, lively and aristocratic. The Middle Ages of the Romanesque Cathedral, although rebuilt inside, of the Palace of the Popes, which dates back to the end of the thirteenth century, with its powerful Gothic arches, and of some districts with narrow streets, external stairways, severed towers, archivolts, is superimposed on the work of centuries later, the loggia of Vignola, many noble palaces. [...] As we have said, Rieti gathers a nucleus of Roman aristocracy, and bears its imprint. (p. 809)”
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“Ninfa That park is one of the most beautiful places in Lazio; so lost and segregated that, thinking of the pompous villas of the Roman aristocracy, it seems to have changed the world. Rather, it would seem that they have been suddenly taken to the East; or in that garden of a short story by Boccaccio, which a necromancer brings to life in one night. (p. 817)”
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“Our country is inferior to none in the number of minds and in the quality of intelligence at the source. But that intelligence can hardly take on a political value and a political prestige, and seldom emits voices that carry with it a universal interest. In no other country like us does the whole field seem to be occupied by activists of all kinds; Nowhere else, almost by tacit agreement of businessmen and sociologists, is the conviction that only money and food problems matter. (p. 863)”
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“The main tool that remains to assert itself to European countries is their old culture. Our political class does not seem to be convinced of this. [...] Italy's risk is to become one of the peoples of low culture, since it is possible to be intelligent and of low culture. (p. 865)”
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“I abhor false coherences and the fiction of the conclusions reached.”
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“I love the dead transmitted to poetic memory, not unburied corpses.”
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