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| Buenaventura - Photograph - Girolamo Clemente |
When Rosemary and I arrive in Venice on the 20th I will have
the ghosts (images) of the many books I have read about Venice. Some have been
novels others non-fiction. But there will be a ghost that will be with me all
the time. It is a 19th century photograph by a mostly forgotten
Venetian photographer called Girolamo Clemente. From what I can gather he died
at age 35 in 1875. I am haunted by this lovely image of a woman he called
Buenaventura. Who was she? I will never know. But perhaps I can find someone to
pose for me in homage to this woman.