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M.B's foto . gondolas, or rather sandalas . good start.

Carpaccio information available/ forget name of big bk/
something ?? like Carstairs.

NOTE/ NOT current in art crit/ WHAT are they doing,
as inScifanoja bk/ wnat does it mean( symbols etc.)

berkeley's theory of vision / analysis . interest in painting
technique , been worked to death , and

NOT of interest to
generally intelligent looker / as distinct from one with
special interest . acquired fr/sense of duty to git edderkated.

partial list of hotels etc/ inappendix, timely as all old
guide bks/ obsolete.

street maps, showing S.Giorgio / Miracoli . etc.
or Perugian churches etc.

INformation in enclycolpedia , in wop and frog bks / etc.
take only the lively parts /

if larger Carpaccio / prob/ more letters of C/ inVenice ,
Milan etc. archives. when M/ can read 'em. not a hard
period for handwritings.

Humanism / interest moves from hell ( with rare heaven ) to
MAN and wumun in AXshun /

after 1525 / urusry tolerance / painting degenerates into
interest in luxury / stuffs . etc. because EXPensive .
not from sheer beauty , as in Pollaiuolo .

modern scrofula, snobism, fasion regardless of looks,
sales pressure.

NOT for intending specialists or those who have to pass
an exam / but for people who LIKEs to look at a good
picture now and agin , and want to know where they can
find one.( or more )

Illustration

aimed at HAHHEHAA helping him see something he
might have missed coming on the picture entire, or amid
a lot of pictures in a gallery

bewildering / most of the subjects
not ingalleries but in churches and pallaces which he might miss.

REF/ Pater : Renaissance

Belloc : Avril

TEN CARPACCIOS . whether ANY whole rep/ or only detail
anyhow / ONE detail at least for w every whole.

with street map to show way to S.Giorgio.

Ref/ Canto XXVI / Browning : Chile Roland to the Dark Tower.

Pater / Adrian Stokes / Sitwell, tend to sluch and slither /
also writ/ either for specialists or the rich.

No Baedekers // need of book for turist of moderate means

QUATTROCENTO /
for tourist of mod/ means who wishes
to see the best *Painting* / Italian *painting* of the period
between 1450 and 1525
with least expense.

a good deal, infact most

///
Spirit / Belloc's "Avril " /

Key note/ Pisanello re/ Horses, or Carpaccio letter

religious gloom broken / painters interest in HUMAN life ,
in action / the know how /

literature of the period is IN paint , as in Mozart's
time, was in music.

the vast amt/ knowledge OF LIFE in these painting.

Carpaccio guide to gofdoliering / technical positions of
oars, can be seen to this day.

Art bks/ too big and heavy / made fer students OF PAINTING ,
not to be part of of life / technical. dull, writ by
profess/ art critics, dealers hacks etc., who have not
though about WRITING.

Suggest Carpaccio because enough variety in what its about.

secong/ vol/ Perugia . Bonfinguoli , Bon etc/

Cortona/ Angelico /

Prob/ NO bk/ or egen article on Schifanoja in english.
life of an age, on that wall.

Jap's bk/ onBotticelli.

M.B. further suggestions for dealing with subject.

1. Take a FIRM tone, it being impossible to UNDERestimate the intelligence of the mutts who write about painting, or the squalor and iggurence of 140 million denizens.

2. write what you know, omit what you dont.

3. a good deal of precise information is at yr/ disposal.
I noticed Paolo Uccello over 50 years ago, and used him for
first freshman theme in 1901 or '2.

D. has precise technical knowledge, and (ability enough to get
into BLAST. in 1914 had)

thus anything we check on shd/ be solid enough
to blast any palooka who tries to talk back.

PAINTING is the presentation of three dimentional facts on
a two-dimentional surface, this is done by the division
of the surface, and by the varying intensity of the colours.

P Pier d'ella Francesca's treatise on composition is contemporary to yr/ subject matter, is called de Arte Dipengendi, or Proportione, or something of that sort. Praps/ de Proportione d' pingendi.

VERY detailed. dont think you can quote, but shd/
know it exists.

stick to WHAT they are painting, and live detail of
human interest more or less connected with same.
plenty of that in Schifanoja, with the insets of seasonal
work, hunting, vine growing.

Frederic II. wrote of the Falcon, probably available.
Dont think the Libro del Marescalco is published.

in particular cases, ASK fer more information.

Jewelry, dress, etc. plenty of detail / Forget if book
C.Teller ghosted has anything useful, re weaving. and
forget name of mutt whose name is on it as author.

all this is for filler, when visible fact is insufficient
fer letter press.

* reckon its in latin, and he is called Petrus de Burgo
  (Borgo-Francesco)

Osmond Beckwith, 203 W. 19 th.

 Cort emplative browser, v. gentle, has access to
printing press/

no flash/

Felix Giovanelli ( of trio, G/ Kenner & Macluhan)

wants action / plugging fer W.Lewis, Ford, EP /

shd/ of course meton Marianne/

assembly/ DIVIDE and take different authors or different
aspects of a period ( of say 30 years.)

MOM onLaFontaine / needs Perrault, etc.

each translate at least something and FIGHT over order of
words in translation, and each read AT least six pages of
something ( agreed on ) between onsets.

dare say Beckwith can provide foyer, praps not.

edderkate the young, if you want the country EVER to be
inhabitable.

Rolfe Fjelde 14 Ave A.

magazine pending ( was YPR, now Poetry N.Y.) nothing
to putt in it.

Hisfriends, of"Facet", in same box. (Rothbard)

But NO one to meet who is NOT collaborating / none of
these people want to stitch each others' IDEAS.

all need MORE information re/ arly everything.

Giov/ VERY active, has sent books etc. trying to braiden
E's mind.

werry laudable / seriously trying to keep E/ up to
date.

also enquire re/ Joe Gould's circle/ which DOES apparently
MEET.

someone ought to frequent BOTH groups.

M/M
Talk to ME about this gordammmit.

Must be a FOCUS. lift the kulchurl level.

fer WNY ...

fer to liberate

Ayn Rand/ wd/ do youall a world of good, IF reachable.
Giov/ might be active enough, Organized highbrow backing
for A.R. might provide USEFUL irritation.
WHOM

Pinturuccio VERY inferior to the others.

Churches in Perugia and Assisi , grade A.

Siene, Opera del Duomo, and Pinacoteca. O.K.

Galleries in Pisa, and Bergamo , not to be omitted

wor bout Zuan Bellin ' / best one used to be in Rimini
( the Pier della Franc/ in Tempio , ALL gone to powder.

the Pintur/'s postcard stuff , not maintained by what is THERE on
the wall. And Aen. Sylv. a DAMswine. fergit him.
save as gossip.

Dont know if I hv/ seen Dagenhart . prob/ not. fergit who did
Pisanello brochure I hv/ seen.

I shd OMIT all mention of either Vassari or Behrenson ,
and preferably of Florence, suggesting that Botticelli
did all his painting in the Cascini or in Pistoija.

Admit Bt/ is difficult point to git round , and
suppose Pollaiuolo must have visited the Arno valley at
some time. Better quote Dant on ' Tough Alley "
quote supplied on request.

M.B. kantinuD

Poifikly easy to use the old slob fer his gissip/
no need to drag in Pinturiccio.

believe Poggio also has some gossip/ Hewlett's HHHH
L'il Nuvvlz ov Italy, wd/ serve to soothe the turist.

Believe there is some Signorelli at Arezzo, and P.Frances
at Bug Oh S.Sepulchro.

Ghirlandaio, not Lip Lip / no reason bk/ shouldn't APPEAR
and be added to, or have a 2nd. vol.

Have you met the kumrad kumminkzs .plural ? Marion has also
prob/ a eye, and the kumrad paintz.

any comments elicited wd/ enliven.

Giovanelli been ill/ do find out how he iz.

The bonfigl/ mostly altar pieces, sfar as I remember/

AND the Cortona churches have each a bunch of Angelikoooo

Ef/ the fambly is backin, you might NEED further tour
of inspexskn

Dont git yr/ idea of Museums from the pre-fascist era.
No need in gittin phobias. Perugia, Siena, Pisa, Rimini,
all small enough to take in comfort.

my "son-in-row" may know a few additions.

* ( Ito's purrnunciatn )

M.B.

possibly at cross porp oizes.

YOU cannot, and nodambody HHH COULD write a bloody
bk/ bout art, any dam art, that wd/ be of the least
interest to ME.

What I snuggested wuz a guide that wd/ lead people to
pictures worth lookin at.
and sell enough to git MB round
the peninsula,

so MB' ZIntroduction wd/ appear to wot she has relegated
to the appendix,
and the Eyetalyun railways wont subsidize
yu to tell 'em Mantua is a lousy swamp.

EF yu wanna bee a female Adrian Stokes thazza nuther
story.

will luk thru the ms/ when not occupied on more
imminent matters.

mebbe yu got to put down all this highbrow meander
FIRST
and when you git it out of yr/ craw

do something portable.

what a CURSE eddykashun iz. All the worst elements in the US
got into the Univs. and innoculated everything that got near
'em from 1870 onwards downgressivly.

GAWD bloodyDammit, hv/ I go'r rite yr/ introd c for YU.

INTROD.

The stewdDent or traVEALor of limited means can see aH
the best extant Woptalian painting painted on walls, in a
limited time and with, perhaps, the exiquous means left him by
a stinking pubk. debt riveted on the necks of an enslaved
pipples by the late hog and orrupter Frankenstein Oooozenfeldt.

Some of the most allurin pixchoors done before MetroStinkenbug
wuz putt onter woptalyan wallz before and or about 1500
and is to be sawn, partly by most eggzitin autobus in even
a couple of month, as the kawledge flunker will want to
spend at least the rest of vacation in Paris niteclupps.

ET bloody certeraaaa.

IN fact, a half dozen narrativ chaps/ like the Mantua /

with SHORT informativ/ say half page INDICATIONS
re/ stuff you do not background in detail
wd/ make the bk/ more readable

THROUGH

And an imaginary itinerary, as per verso/ start the blighters
at Venice

having sd/ few git to Mantua.

Order of detailed hunksH Mantua.

Mantua ,
Venice
VERONA

MANTUA
VENICE

brief ref/ Vicenza / Villa Rotonda, Paladio Theatre.
i.e. the ½ Page interlude.

VERONA.
FERRARA

( inrod pp/ re/ architecture . )

at least keep some imagined itinerary in head.

Milan, mere ref/ ¼ page.

Bergamo ½ P.

Last Supper · kaput/
whatever tell is left in Brera, H Poldi-Pezzoli
Ambrosiana.

a sigh for Mr Churchill's dhirty work
and the worlds to Finklestein · Pewksveldt.
debt to

I see Malaparte has putt it nicely, re
his amurkn comrads who die& uselessly.

( Firenze ? Palaz Pub. )

Cortona ½ page, re Angelic.

PERUGUA
ASSISI

I dare say, yu kneed Firenze to make
SIX.

NO dambit, FERRARA

well . mebbe 7

perhaps Ferrara as grand finale.

HAI QUEL'AMORE VENISON DALLA FRANCAISE

some ref/ somewhere re Arezzo, and the Pier della Francesca
wheretell outside.

PBM

M. Barnard

NOT to tell anyone, not even Diarmid Russel that
the D'ANH de Angulo ms/ came via Ez.

Same goes for Marianne, Marianne to know that M.B. brings it
at Ez' request

BUT neither of 'em to know officially anything
except that cummings had it and liked it.

interest here , in hearing from M.B and M.M. what they
fell about the text.

But no word to the outer re/ such
transmission.

Marianne in especial not let any of her NASTY friends
know Ez has seen or even heard of the ms/

she has a nice trustful natr and is loath to think the
worst of some ov'em.

this doggyment can serve a credentials

Item / Eleanor Monro , Art Snooze Annual , wantz a artikl on
Hokky Sigh /
I ain't a goin' to dew it.

Did yu ever get round to meeting Fjelde, who forwarded the
reeK west,
seemz H the gal is a frien' ov his.

Of curse they PAY, as yu prob/y kno.

Mary Barnard

5 Minetta St

New York 12

N.Y.

Mary Barnard
5 Minetta St

New York 12

N.Y

6 Jan

Why not show a li'l human sociability and do 1/2 page on
Lekakis\ skuppchoor/
there'z bin a Gaudier show in London alZo.

I think Stock wd/ print 1/2 page on ek/ tho need for LITERATURE
greater in his ambience /

the TeXas marigolds COULD keep yu in touch with the
contemporary life of the mind, if you didn't oyster shut.

for ref/ re Marigolds. try kumminkz and R.Reid

As you never did git round to doing that USEFUL book on
where are paintings fit to look at

& how probable it is.

I note in Santayana's Letters, p. 256 to T. Munro
note on Gt. Pictures of Europe /

probably no use, but
G.S. being purrlight abaout it.

La Martinelli, with introd/ is printed, Milano, but only
2 copies yet arrived by air mail / so not disponibile for
distribution for a few weeks.

P.S. ever read enuf Santayana to make it start you wondering why is
sometimes a bore? despite frequent lucidity.

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