Ferrara

«And then, as I looked at them and at the vast urban landscape spread out below me as far as I could see, I suddenly felt myself filled with great sweetness, with peace and tender gratitude. The setting sun, piercing a dark bank of clouds low on the horizon, lit everything vividly: the Jewish cemetery at my feet, the apse and campanile of the Church of St. Christopher a little farther away, and in the distance, high above the dark extent of houses, the distant bulk of the castle and the cathedral.»

Giorgio Bassani, The gold-rimmed spectacles, translated by Isabel Quigly, London, Faber and Faber, 1960 (p. 102-103)