By: Martina Celegato
Submitted: 2009-09-03 07:57:10 | Word Count: 585
Venice is certainly a mysterious and enchanting city, so different form every other places in the world. There are a lot of enigmas and mysteries in this city, and visitors and inhabitants are always fascinated by them.
For those who are interested in these issues, the advice is the read the fascinating trilogy of the mystery by Alberto Tosi Fei: “Veneziaenigma”, “Legends of Venice and Ghosts Stories” and “Mysteries of the lagoon and witch tales”. This trilogy collects a lot of stories and tales handed down by the popular tradition, stories that animated the venetian life during all these centuries, that are indissolubly linked to the places, enabling also tourists and visitors to retrace the steps of this journey into the mystery and in the roots of one of the most fascinating cities in the world.
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The books are the result of an accurate work of research and documentation, carried on by the author for years, both with the search of chronicle of the past and with the transcription of oral histories and legends. Also the stories are organized in the form of a guidebook, thanks to the special nature of this city, where places are still the same as in the ‘500, ‘600, and‘700. This allows the author telling stories exactly stating the origin, almost topographical. The books are a collection of places where creatures take life again, as if by magic. Even if they lost their physical humanity, they re-emerge from the pages to tell again their message of hope and death, sorrow or joy, in every case so alive here, vibrant and still exciting.
Stories of doges and courtesans, common people and in some cases animals, elements of a lost “Venetianity” (only surpassed, not to regret) of whom also the stones speak about in the city, if you stop just one moment to listen. So here there are these eternal stories, already written somewhere else but never collected all together (and in any case never signaled in the places where they took place): the one of the Biagio the “luganegher (butcher) who made a delicious sauce with the meat of children, of the poor little baker, unjustly killed for a murder committed by a noble; the one about the devil disguised as a monkey, that a brave friar made come out from a wall, which still bears the signs or the one of a red blood colored rose bud, the first a young man gave his beloved as a pledge of love in a tradition intended to perpetrate.
This is a journey in the Venice of fantastic, tenebrous, magic, passing through a lot of information and curiosity on Venice maybe forgotten to soon. Thrilling stories, which will make you tremble, but also dream and desire with all your strength to see the places where the events took place. Places that are exactly as they were in past centuries. The lagoon of Venice in fact hides dozens and dozens of stories and legends, sometimes arcane and mysterious, sometimes decidedly curious, sometimes just permeated by the beauty that only the magic lagoon can infuse to the word.
There is no better way to find them out than reading these fantastic books, which will make you discover a side of Venice until now not even imagined.
