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exploring taste—santa margherita gruppo vinicolo places—stories from the lagoon

VENICE, BETWEEN famous for A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, as the most im-
portant writer since Shakespeare. And he did so, on the one hand, by recalling
LITERATURE AND the impressive collection of works, including novels, articles and short sto-
ries that 51 year-old Hemingway had published over the previous 27 years
CINEMA of uninterrupted writing and literary testimony, and on the other hand, by

bluntly attacking the critics, in his opinion guilty of wanting to drag an ar-
tistic personality of such high caliber down to the mediocrity of the common
man by calling the writer short-tempered, an alcoholic, a liar and a coward. A
Words SILVIA SCHIRINZI Photography ARCHIVIO PAOLO MONTI few years later, Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the
When in September 1950, John O’Hara reviewed the release of Beyond the Sea (published in 1952, prize awarded the following year) and then the Nobel
River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway in the New York Times, a novel Prize for Literature (1954), and although not all critics shared O’Hara’s praise
set between Trieste and Venice, he was not afraid to define the author, already for the novel set in the lagoon, the story about a heartbroken Richard Cantwell

photography Alessandra Impallomeni

STORIES FROM

THE LAGOON 1. 2.

4. 3.

The exceptional atmosphere of the Venetian Lagoon is the almost idyllic place where the imaginary
(and sometimes personal) stories of great authors, such as Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest
Hemingway – soon to become a film, mingle with the unparalleled culinary tradition of Veneto in 1. – 3. 4.
historical cafés, prestigious wineries and charming Palladian villas. Winter view of the Venetian lagoon, Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by Ernest Hemingway,
published in New York by Scribner on 1950 September 7
in the images of photographer Paolo Monti
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