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Poems of Asolo (Italian title: “Poemi Asolani”) is a 1985 German-Italian biographical film about the Italian music composer Gian Francesco Malipiero, directed by Georg Brintrup.
Take Asolo's Four Happiest Ones-And let thy morning rain on that superb Great haughty Ottima; can rain disturb Her Sebald's homage? All the while thy rain Beats fiercest on her shrub-house window-pane, He will but press the closer, breathe more warm Against her cheek; how should she mind the storm?
A fascinating place on the rolling Asolan hills, Asolo was a destination for poets and writers, artists and travellers that found inspiration and harmony here. Among them the English poet Robert Browning, the Divine theatre actress Eleonora Duse, the composer Gian Francesco Malipiero, the English writer and traveller Freya Stark.
Each of the scenes of Pippa Passes contains such a situation, and, by a unique experiment in construction, all are strung upon a single thread, and, as Pater, speaking of a single poem, continues, the poem 'has the clear ring of a central motive ; we receive from it the impression of one imaginative tone, of a single creative act.'
Pippa Passes. In act III, Pippa passes a group of girls sitting near the Duomo in Asolo, one of whom calls to her, "you may come closer—we shall not eat you!" Drawing by Elizabeth Siddal, 1854. Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning.
May 13, 2011 · Life. Love. Melancholy. Nature. Religion. New Year's Day at Asolo in the Trevisan. Scene.- A large mean airy chamber. A girl, Pippa, from the Silk-mills, springing out of bed. . Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last: Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim. Where spurting and suppressed it lay,
Pippa is a young girl working in the silk mills of Asolo, and New Year’s Day is her one day holiday in the year. She decides to spend it walking past four of Asolo’s happiest households, in which unknown to her, despite appearances, things are taking a very unattractive turn.
