Category Archives: Padua

Today is the 400th anniversary of Tom’s Departure

Posted on May 15, 2008 by robhunt510

A picture from Padua’s railway station Thanks Tom for inspiring my walk, changed my life – a little And in other news: the Venice bottom snapper has finally been caught. Normal walking service will shortly resume: I’m writing an academic … Continue reading →

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The sons of their fathers

Posted on August 13, 2007 by robhunt510

“The only way you know you’re not in Italy, not in Venice, when you’re at The Venetian hotel [in Las Vegas]? Easy. The water is blue, not that muddy brown green of Venice, and the Gondoliers are black.” In Padua … Continue reading →

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Transmission time @ the Cappella degli Scrovegni

Posted on August 10, 2007 by robhunt510

The strangely scientific logo for the Scrovegni museum… It is very hard to look honestly at Giotto’s art after reading Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”. It is not hard to let yourself immerse in the frescos of the Scrovegni chapel … Continue reading →

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Postscript to the Rain

Posted on August 10, 2007 by robhunt510

Last night it rained for eight seconds, which still briefly emptied the square. One brave couple sat it out. I asked Luca, a waiter, what the problem was. Why were there no umbrellas. “We don’t have a licence. And to … Continue reading →

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Stream of rain and consciousness

Posted on August 9, 2007 by robhunt510

Shaun believes the English novel died in 1943 with the “Establishment’s” rejection of “Finnegans Wake”. Especially Virginia Woolf; and she was dead within a year. He is 27, tells me quickly he is “precocious”: next term he starts teaching literature … Continue reading →

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Padua Requiem

Posted on August 9, 2007 by robhunt510

“There is one speciall thing wanting in this citie, which made me not a little wonder; namely, that frequency of people which I observed in the other Italian cities. For I saw so few people here, that I thinke no … Continue reading →

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Post rain music

Posted on August 9, 2007 by robhunt510

After the first storm twenty minutes of pleasure: Ravel, Vivaldi and Bach outside the Palazzo Bo, empty streets suddenly fill, as if in reconnection with some other time when music was everywhere in the streets. The violins remind me of … Continue reading →

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Time out in Padua

Posted on August 8, 2007 by robhunt510

“There is one moral of all human tales;‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,First freedom, and then glory – when that failsWealth, vice, corruption, – barbarism is last.And History, with all her volumes vast,Hath but one page” Byron, Childe … Continue reading →

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Those Pictures

Posted on August 8, 2007 by robhunt510
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Oh Venice, city of Angels

Posted on August 8, 2007 by robhunt510

Diesel jeans just in case you wondered, are Italian, the owner is from Padua. And is he not happy with the prices in Venice either “Mr Rosso (52), who comes from nearby Padua, said that they had enjoyed the orchestra … Continue reading →

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