Continuing to read Goethe's Italian Journey, I've just finished up the section where he's in Venice. It's amazing how enchanted he is with the place. Having been to Venice myself, I suppose I can agree with him.I do think it's funny that it's 1786 and he's complaining about the garbage in the streets and how there's disgusting sewage that floods the walkways of the city at high tide. 240 years later nothing has changed.He also remarks on how Venice has diminished, that its power from its days of glory is weaker, and the whole Republic has begun to decay. I suppose this was less than 50 years before Napoleon swept in and just extinguished the Republic with one fell swoop.He sees a lot of plays while he's here. He enjoys the ones that depict everyday Venetians, and apparently, so do the Venetians themselves.He sees the famous horses at St. Mark's Basilica. I'm surprised he doesn't remark that they're from Constantinople; maybe that wasn't well-known in his time.
>>24945093Thanks for the book report anon (I mean it unironically)
>>24945093good
I enjoyed Paul Morand's and Joseph Brodsky's books on Venice
>>24945093god you sound like an insufferable pedantic faggott
Tell us what he says about italian women
>>24945093Nice. Brings me back to my time with the book.>>24947133You suck
>>24947411holy fuck. how incredible
