Calendario dei gondolieri 2007
new guide:

GONDOLAS & GONDOLIERS

a brief introduction to the world of the gondola and ethnographic annotations on gondoliers

by

Piero Pazzi

PARTE IV

THE MYTH OF THE GONDOLIER

AS A LATIN-LOVER

In Venice, the city of romance, there could not but exist the figure of the latin-lover, and who better to cover this role than the gondolier?

The difference with modern cities where the automobile isolates and separates people from one another, who is used to moving about the narrow streets of Venice is obliged to come into constant contact with a myriad fo people who frequent the same places, walk over the same bridges, stop in the same squares and who find themselves to visit the same stores, bars and retaurants.

This eases the birth of a multitude of looks that vary in intensity, and that repeat themselves day after day.

Therefore, there is nothing more precise than to confirm that the gondoliers find themselves in being the target of neverending attention and appreciation, more so because of their peculiar uniform and then because of their eventual aesthetic attraction that the subject in question may have.

The resulting possible chemical reactions that could be potentially created form the premise for eventual and unexpected developments.

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