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The Soul of Italy

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
– Anna Akhmatova

A man who has not been to Italy is always conscious
of an inferiority.
– Samuel Johnson

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
– Giuseppe Verdi

I would have to say that the best part about Italy is the people.
The hospitality of the Italian people is without rival.
There’s no friendlier place on the planet.
– Steve McCurry

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing in the world that you ever heard of Venice,
is equal to the magnificent and stupendous reality.
– Charles Dickens

Open my heart and you will see,
‘Graved inside of it, Italy.
– Robert Browning

By Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than thirty years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name.

To read more about Steve go to www.stevemccurry.com/bio

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33 replies on “The Soul of Italy”

I went to Italy last year and fell in love with it. This year I went back to south Italy – Tropea. I am going to Venice in August. Fantastic photos, thanks for sharing 🙂 x

Visited last year. Your photographs inspire me to return sooner than planned. Thank you so much.

I’m with you on this. It’s like going home. My grandparents are from there and they set up a Little Italy at their house where I spent some of the best days of my childhood: the music, the food, the language. I love every bit of it. Thanks for this. Trudy Cusella PS McCurry doesn’t sound very Italian.

Thanks Steve you have filled my heart. I can’t wait to go back. Bravo

Gorgeous frames!

Italy is a feeling

if there is something of which, as Italians, we feel proud, it is precisely this: beyond all, it is perhaps not just beauty that is the most precious heritage that our history gives us.

It is a relief to know that despite all bad things we hear around, there is still a huge perception of what Italy really is. This helps our hurt and sometimes lost soul. On behalf of the Italians, thank you Steve and all of you.

I agree with all the quotes which describe this magnificent country and its beautiful people who know how to live fully and beautifully. Colors, nature, civilization and culture combination in Italy is a perfect mixture which one can spend the rest of his/her life without looking somewhere else. I absolutely an in love with this beautiful piece of earth. I congratulate Mr. McCurry for bringing these little moments of this country for everyone to see.

Italy truly is a dream, there is no exaggeration on how poets, writers and artists describe it.

I adore Italy for it is the most beautiful of the world everything is an artistic thing there’s beauty everywhere

a écrit :

> Steve McCurry posted: “Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest > of your life. – Anna Akhmatova A man who has not been to Italy is always > conscious of an inferiority. – Samuel Johnson You may have the universe > if I may have Ital” >

So close… I must spend time there…your images encapsulate the feelings of warmth and beauty ..people and places.

I loved this and sent the link to my dear friend, Marco, whom I’ve known for more than 46 years! He is from Foligno and has lived there always! He knows my love for Italy and he loves his country, too❣️ (He just doesn’t like the government!)

My heart’s desire is to see Italy, your pictures remind me why.

Great stuff always – from Philippines

All of these images are gorgeous, but I especially love the ones in which you capture ordinary moments in people’s lives — and turn them into poetry. THANK YOU for sharing your work here.

We live in a treasure chest. Thanks.

Fabulous! So much soul in this, so much presence! Thank you! I have friends who are in Italy at the moment on a writing hiatus, and who’ve been sending me photos of their escapades, and as soon as I saw this I sent them the link. 🙂

Italy is my country. Of course I love it, but these pictures show something that maybe sometimes we miss just because we have them in front of us every day. Congratulations Steve for capturing the real spirit of our country and giving it back to us. I love all your works