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| 37ad6d1 | HANNAH: ....English landscape was invented by gardeners imitating foreign painters who were evoking classical authors. The whole thing was brought home in the luggage from the Grand Tour. Here, look -- Capability Brown doing Claude, who was doing Virgil. Arcadia! And here, superimposed by Richard Noakes, untamed nature in the style of Salvator Rosa. It's the Gothic novel expressed in landscape. Everything but vampires. | salvator-rosa rosa | Tom Stoppard | |
| 90ed434 | Non c'e appagamento che non sia reso piu dolce dal protrarsi del desiderio. | fantasy desiderio rosa | Jacqueline Carey |