La Luce

In Italy, light is subject matter.

Light that illuminates foiled vellum and frescoes of a time-muted palette. Light that spills down Italy’s street paths of medieval width.

Italy’s Light, Elizabeth Jennings

It is not quite a house without the sun

And sun is what we notice, wonder at

As if stone left its hard and quarried state

To be reciprocal to light and let

The falling beams bound and rebound upon

Shutter and wall, each with assurance thrown.

So on descending from the snow we meet

Not warmth of south but houses which contrive

To be designed of sun. The builders have

Instructed hands to know where shadows fall

And made of buildings an obedient stone

Linked to the sun as waters to the moon.