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A “poetic” street map with lots of quotations,
places index and map, to discover Milan throu-
gh the words of the great storytellers who visi-
ted the city of the Madonnina especially in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, annotating
the places in their travel notebooks. “It’s dusty
and theatrical like a watercolor sketch made by
an energetic hand,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her “LA CHIESA DI SAN FEDELE
diary; “It’s dark, uncomfortable and cold,” no-
ted Dostoevsky. Quotes collected in the book CHE SI SCORGE ARRIVANDO
“Milano dice di lei” by Elleboro Editore with DAL TEATRO ALLA SCALA
texts by the writer and journalist Lorenzo Not- ATTRAVERSO LA VIA SAN GIOVANNI
te, passionate traveler, on an unprecedented ALLE CASE ROTTE, È SUPERBA,
literary walk. We pass “in a carriage” along the MA DI UNA BELLEZZA DI TIPO GRECO,
Corso di Porta Venezia with Stendhal and Lord
Byron, we turn into via Bigli where Honoré del IL CHE È ALLEGRO E NOBILE”.
Balzac was courting the Countess Clara Maffei, STENDHAL, ROME, NAPLES ET FLORENCE,
in the Gallery we drink a white glass with Tom- PARIS, DELAUNAY 1826
maso Marinetti and Ernest Hemingway. (PIAZZA SAN FEDELE)

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