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Illustrious personalities:
OUR PARTICULAR THANKS TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONALITIES
WHO HAVE VISITED THE RIVIERA DEL BRENTA AND THE CELEBRATED
AUTHORS WHO HAVE SO ELOQUENTLY SUNG ITS PRAISES.

"Ma s'io fosse fuggito inver' la Mira,
quando fu' sovragiunto ad Oriaco,
ancor sarei di là dove si spira.
Corsi al palude, e le cannucce e 'l braco
m'impigliar sì ch'i' caddi; e lì vid'io
de le mie vene farsi in terra laco."
(Dante Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia", Purgatorio, Canto V)


"Le ruote scorrevano scorrevano, nella strada bianca, lungo gli argini della Brenta.
Il fiume, magnifico e glorioso nei sonetti degli abati cicisbei quando per la sua corrente scendevano i burchielli pieni di musiche e di piaceri, aveva ora l'aspetto umile d'un canale ove guazzavano le anitre verdazzurre in frotte."
(Gabriele D'Annunzio, "Il Fuoco")


"Musa, cantiam del padovan Burchiello
La deliziosa, comoda vettura,
In cui per Brenta viaggiasi bel bello,
Dal gel difesi e dall'estiva arsura."
"Parlo di quel vaghissimo naviglio
Di specchi, e intagli, e di pitture ornato,
Che ogni venti minuti avanza un miglio,
Da buon rimurchio e da' cavai tirato;
In cui senza timor, senza periglio,
A sedere o a dormir può starsi agiato."
(Carlo Goldoni, "Il Burchiello di Padova", 1760)


"I have heard great talk," said Candide, "of the Senator Pococurante, who lives in that fine house at the Brenta, where, they say, he entertains foreigners in the most polite manner." Candide thereupon sent a messenger to Signor Pococurante, desiring permission to wait on him the next day. Candide and his friend Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the palace of the noble Pococurante. The gardens were laid out in elegant taste, and adorned with fine marble statues; his palace was built after the most approved rules of architecture."
(Voltaire, "Candido", 1759)


"Just a few words about my itinerary here from Padua. The trip along the Brenta on the public boat service was made in comfort and in the company of very pleasant people. It was most enjoyable: the Italians are courteous and full of attentions. The banks of the river are lined with gardens and villas; tiny hamlets rise almost on the waterway, that for long sections is bordered by a busy little highway."
(Goethe, Viaggio in Italia, 1817)


"It is just an inn, where the passengers embark to go to Venice. All the boats along the river dock there, and mechanisms with pulleys are turned by two horses, much in the way that they turn the grinding wheels to press oil. They pull on these boats by means of wheels that raise them above a wall of wood planking and set them in the canal that leads to the sea where Venice lie.s"
(Michel de Montaigne, "Voyage en Italie", 1580)
(Il Canaletto, "Le chiuse di Dolo", 1728)
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
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