Henry James in Capri - between 1900 and 1909

from Italian Hours, pages 312-313, pages 312-313:

My friend had, among many original relics…two or three reproductions of the finest bronzes of the Naples museum, the work of a small band of brothers… and they had come over from Naples on St. Antony’s eve, as they had done the year before, to report themselves to their patron, to keep up good relations, to drink Capri wine and to join in the tarantella….I am not sure it was not the conversation and the beautiful manners of these obscure young men that most fixed in my mind for the time the sense of the side of life that, all around, was to come out strongest…. It was an impression …   more >>
cite as

Italian Hours, pages 312-313. In Henry James , and John Auchard (ed.), Italian Hours (1995), p. 312-313. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1382352972 accessed: 29 March, 2024

location of experience: Capri

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Neapolitan song
tarantella

Experience Information

Date/Time between 1900 and 1909
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private

Originally submitted by hgb3 on Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:56:12 +0100