Friedrich Nietzsche | Venedig

Luca Carlevarijs (Italian painter, 1663-1730) View of the Molo Venice looking west

Venice

By the bridge I stood

recently in the brown night.

From the distance came the sound of song;

golden drops surged away

over the vibrating surface.

Venezia

Stavo sul ponte,

poco tempo fa, nella notte bruna.

Di lontano giungeva un canto:

gocce d’oro affioravano

sulla superficie vibrante.

Luca Carlevaris (Italian painter, 1663-1730) Piazza San Marco Venice, 1709 | The-Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gondole, luci, musica -

ebbre nuotavano via nel crepuscolo…

La mia anima, strumento a corde,

cantò per sé, a un tocco invisibile,

una canzone di gondolieri,

tremando alla variopinta beatitudine.

- L’ha udita qualcuno?…

Gondolas, light, music -

drunk, it floated off into the dusk...

My soul, a lute,

unseeably moved, sang

a gondolier's song secretly to itself,

trembling with joyous bliss.

- Did anyone listen to it?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)🎨, "Venedig".

Canaletto🎨 (Italian painter, 1697-1768) Piazza San Marco, 1720 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canaletto (Italian painter, 1697-1768) The Bucintoro, 1745-1750

Venedig

(Original text)

An der Brücke stand

jüngst ich in brauner Nacht.

Fernher kam Gesang:

goldener Tropfen quoll′s

über die zitternde Fläche weg.

Gondeln, Lichter, Musik -

trunken schwamm′s in die Dämmerung hinaus...

Meine Seele, ein Saitenspiel,

sang sich, unsichtbar berührt,

heimlich ein Gondellied dazu,

zitternd von bunter Seligkeit.

- Hörte Jemand ihr zu?...

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), "Venedig".

Canaletto (Italian painter, 1697-1768) The Grand Canal from San Vio Venice

Canaletto (Italian painter, 1697-1768) The molo Venice from the Bacino di San Marco

Canaletto (Italian painter, 1697-1768) Venice Entrance to the Cannaregio

Michele Marieschi (Italian painter, 1710-1744) Venice, 1710-1743

Michele Marieschi (Italian painter, 1710-1744) Venice a view of the-Piazza San Marco Grimani on 30 june 1741

Francesco Guardi🎨 (Italian painter, 1712-1793) The Entrance to the Grand canal

Bernardo Bellotto (Italian painter, 1721-1780) Venice The entrance to the Grand canal

Bernardo Bellotto (Italian painter, 1721-1780) View of the Grand Canal and the Dogana