Niccolò Tommaseo

THE SECOND EXILE

 Niccolò Tommaseo’s writings concerning the things of Italy and Europe from 1849 onwards

Volumes 1-2-3

A selection of letters and texts written during his Corfiota stay

Introduction by R. Nicolì

This digital edition produced for the POLYSEMI Library proposes a significant sampling – albeit arbitrary to some extent – of the letters sent by Niccolò Tommaseo^[1] during the time spent in Corfu, where he moved in August 1849 after the fall of the Venetian Republic of which he had been one of the most ardent defenders. On the island the writer remained until May 1854. This is his “second exile”^[2], as he entitled the three volumes of the memoirs of those years entrusted in 1862 to the Milanese publisher Francesco Sanvito. From that edition the parts presented here have been selected and transcribed. Read more “Niccolò Tommaseo” →

Lalla Romano

LALLA ROMANO

DIARY OF GREECE

Chapters 1 – 4

Introduction by R. Nicolì

This digital edition of the POLYSEMI Library presents the transcription of some famous pages taken from the Diary of Greece by Lalla Romano; these are contained, together with the author’s entire works, in Works, two volumes edited by Cesare Segre and published by Arnoldo Mondadori in 1991 and 1992 respectively. Read more “Lalla Romano” →

Simone Pomardi

JOURNEY TO GREECE MADE BY SIMONE POMARDI IN 1804, 1805 AND 1806 INCLUDING COPPER TABLES

 VOLUME 2  

• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30

Introduction by R. Nicolì

In 1804, 1805 and 1806, for eighteen months an Irish aristocrat and talented watercolorist called Edward Dodwell and the Roman painter Simone Pomardi^[1], known for his large watercolors of almost always architectural subject depicting Rome and its surroundings, visited Greece. About 900 drawings and watercolors of that journey^[2] can still be found and two texts that tell the experience: the one published in 1819 by Dodwell, A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806 (with drawings by Simone Pomardi), and the one written by Pomardi and published in two volumes at Vincenzo Poggioli Chamber Printer in 1820; for the POLYSEMI Library, we chose and transcribed two chapters strictly pertinent to the Ionian Islands, taken from volume 2. Read more “Simone Pomardi” →