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    Posted 13 years ago

    vetraio50
    (751 items)

    Memories of Italy!

    I found this charger only yesterday.
    It was not cheap but I had to have it!
    It is huge: 60 cm in diameter or nearly 24 inches!
    I nursed it on an eighty minute bus ride to get it home.
    I wondered how the original owner got such a large piece safely back to Australia. It's more than just the usual tourist piece that you put in your hand luggage.

    Some of my fondest memories of Italy are of the Amalfi coast.
    On the costa d'Amalfi south of Napoli is the town of Vietri sul Mare.
    Vietri is famous for its production of tin-glazed pottery.
    This is a scene of the tourist town of nearby Positano painted by Landi 'o7.
    On the reverse is the name of the studio: Romolo Apicella.

    Romolino died in 2009. He was known as one of the "maestri" of Italian ceramics who worked with Guido Gambone and Giovannino Carrano.
    Other great painters worked with him in his "laboratorio":
    Mario Carotenuto, Renato Barisani, Ignazio Moncada, Susanna Dölker, Virginio Quarta, Mario Signorino, Matteo Sabino and others.

    While researching this piece I read a tribute to Romolino Apicella by Sigismondo Nastri that discusses "memoria" - memory and memories.

    Tema di questo blog, l’ho dichiarato all’inizio, è il ricordo: “l’unico paradiso – dicevo, citando Jean Paul – dal quale non possiamo venir cacciati”. E se è vero – lo scrive Ungaretti – che “il ricordare è segno di vecchiaia” (è il caso mio: sto per compiere 74 anni), è ancora più vero, come afferma Giorgio Pasquali, che “chi non ricorda, non vive”.

    - Memory is the only Paradise that we can never be thrown out of. J.P.
    - Memory is a sign of old age. Giuseppe Ungaretti
    - Those who don't remember, don't live. Giorgio Pasquali

    Ungaretti is one of my favorite poets and I suggest him to everyone.
    Giorgio Pasquali too was part of my university education here in Sydney nearly 40 years ago ....
    ....... (è il caso mio: sto per compiere 61 anni).

    This is what I call a "keeper"!

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    Comments

    1. vetraio50 vetraio50, 12 years ago
      Thanks ozmarty and potrero for your comments.
    2. vetraio50 vetraio50, 12 years ago
      Many thanks BeauxPurdy!
    3. vetraio50 vetraio50, 12 years ago
      That's an old one, Sean!
      Many thanks!
      It is huge!
      Two feet across!
    4. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks mustangtony!
    5. toracat toracat, 11 years ago
      I now am having great memories of Italy!!
    6. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Thanks Don.
    7. SEAN68 SEAN68, 10 years ago
      Stuning and this is a Keeper:)!
    8. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      Thanks again, SEAN!
    9. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      Many thanks AGHCOLLECT & NORDICMAN !!!!!
    10. vetraio50 vetraio50, 9 years ago
      Many thanks BRATJDD !!!!!!
    11. vetraio50 vetraio50, 9 years ago
      Many thanks HO2CULTCHA !!!!!
    12. surfdub66 surfdub66, 9 years ago
      Whoppa!! Love it ;-)
    13. vetraio50 vetraio50, 9 years ago
      Many thanks SURFDUB & PATSEA too !!!!!!!
    14. vetraio50 vetraio50, 9 years ago
      Many thanks ANTIQUEROSE !!!!!!!!
    15. vetraio50 vetraio50, 9 years ago
      Many thanks CAPERKID !!!!!!!!!
    16. vetraio50 vetraio50, 7 years ago
      New pix !!!!
    17. inky inky, 7 years ago
      Greta size..love it!...:-)
    18. vetraio50 vetraio50, 7 years ago
      Many thanks INKY !!!!

      It is a BIGGIE !!!
    19. vetraio50 vetraio50, 7 years ago
      Many thanks FLEAFINDER !!!
    20. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 7 years ago
      Cinque Terre!! nice!
    21. vetraio50 vetraio50, 7 years ago
      Many thanks RADEGRUNDER & HO2CULTCHA !!!
    22. vetraio50 vetraio50, 6 years ago
      Many thanks DLPETERSEN !,!,!,!
    23. vetraio50 vetraio50, 5 years ago
      Many thanks WORTHIT2 & NEWFLD !.!!.!!!.!!.!
    24. apostata apostata, 2 years ago
      Come questa pietra

      del S. Michele

      così fredda

      così dura

      così prosciugata

      così refrattaria

      così totalmente

      disanimata

      .

      Come questa pietra

      è il mio pianto

      che non si vede

      .

      La morte

      si sconta

      vivendo
    25. vetraio50 vetraio50, 2 years ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZe8j-yOcg
    26. apostata apostata, 2 years ago
      Si sta come
      d'autunno
      sugli alberi
      le foglie.”

      why is this poem created in the adverbial style ( d,autunno) in stead of the adjectivum way( autunnale)because then it can be used as an estrapolazione comparativa
    27. apostata apostata, 2 years ago
      even when autumn is an ostantivo the d,esprit of the poem poem estrapolazione comparativa
    28. apostata apostata, 2 years ago
      the poem is actually stylistically forma di stato, but it losing layers when the perception aint an extrapolation
    29. vetraio50 vetraio50, 2 years ago
      Is Soldati one of his earliest ????

      In a movement away from Petrarchism, that word 'come' is 'the problem'.

      Hanging onto life precariously. Being and not being.
      A return to noun-adjective poetry is what inevitably followed, no ???

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZe8j-yOcg

    30. apostata apostata, 2 years ago
      no solution is probably to maintain the ettasillabi
    31. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 months ago
      Many thanks NEWFLD !!!!!

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