To San Marco — its opulence pleases me as a house of the poor! Yet I feel more at home in San Zeno! Divine air. No desire to think, only to dream! … An encounter with Tesarini, the ‘Corbo Bianco,’ the first Wagnerian in Italy, a real Venetian. The evening spent in the Piazza San Marco.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]