They said
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Robert Browning
Giosuč Carducci
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Pietro Bembo
"So Asolo, beautiful and pleasant castle at the end summits of our Alps above the Trivigiano is, as everybody must knows, the belongs to the lady Queen of Cyprus" (from "Degli Asolani").
Robert Browning
"I assure you that even with the experience I have had of the most beautiful landscapes in Italy and elsewhere, I know of nothing that can compare with the view one enjoys from the tower and the Queen's palace (letter dated 1889 to friend Mrs FitzGerald).
"Come, my soul! And I saw a town, splendid with magnificent architecture perfect in every aspect" (from "Asolando").
"How many years have passed now - Oh, my Asolo - since (just a step from the sea to the land) I found you and loved you albeit with such deep fear because natural objects really did appear clothed in fire" (from "Asolando").
Eleonora Duse
"When I throw open the shutters of my room, Mount Grappa is framed in the window. Then I put two pots of flowers on the window sill and an altar is there".
"I love Asolo because it is a beautiful and peaceful village of lace and poetry".
Giosuč Carducci
"The city of a hundred horizons".
Gianfrancesco Malipiero
"Neither San Gimignano, nor Siena, nor Volterra gripped me like Asolo which, from that day forward, dominated me and made me its slave" (from "Treviso - Ritratto di una Provincia").
Guido Piovene
"From the window while we were having tea in Asolo, the sunset light from the Veneto hills, softly evoking spirits, came streaming in" (from "Viaggio in Italia").
Giovanni Comisso
"High up in the fortress you feel as if you are on the point of a diamond where every face presents an iridescent landscape" (from "Veneto Felice" edited by Nico Naldini).
Giorgio Lago
"Even before letting itself be looked at, Asolo always begins with making you think in such a way that the very emotions look like rigorous thought: Beauty that forces one to reason over everyday things is also the height of the Usefulness. (from the preface to "Asolo, antiche armonie" by M. Sartoretto).
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