I luoghi dei libri di Henry James

…a view of the sunny crest of the Dent du Midi and the picturesque towers of the Castle of Chillon.

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

Daisy’s grave was in the little Protestant cemetery, in an angle of the wall of imperial Rome, beneath the cypresses and the thick spring flowers.

…Winterbourne approached the dusky circle of the Colosseum, it recurred to him, as a lover of the picturesque, that the interior, in the pale moonshine, would be well worth a glance.

But you indulge in larger excursions--you go to Burano and Torcello, to Malamocco and Chioggia.

…or than floating in a gondola or than hanging over a balcony or than taking one’s coffee at Florian’s. It is of such superficial pastimes that a Venetian day is composed

…of a bow in which the high wide face of the Palazzo Pubblico forms the cord and everything else the arc.

…or in the splendid square which serves as a vast forecourt to the strange old basilica of Saint Mark. I sat in front of Florian’s café, eating ices, listening to music, talking with acquaintances