Edmondo De Amicis (October 21, 1846—March 12, 1908), is a notable Italian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. Journeying to Constantinople by boat, Edmondo De Amicis is initially dismayed to discover that his first glimpse of this much-awaited city will be obscured by fog. Yet, as he will come to appreciate, the slow unveiling of rooftops, domes and minarets is in fact the best introduction to Constantinople he could wish for. Throughout his stay in this most cosmopolitan of cities – with Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Gypsies, Catholics and Jews sewn together in a patchwork of life – he encounters the inhabitants’ endless vitality, in a city which provides an inexhaustible source of beauty and mystery.
Costantinopoli (1878)
I had De Amicis' text ready when I came to Istanbul. For he had seen what I cannot see today' - Umberto Eco (from his foreword)
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A few typos, not the reason I'm posting, it's been a while since I've read through your Costak files and I find the material quite absorbing...nevertheless, I do hope that we are not getting lost in the details and forgetting the story? I will assume we have not forgotten the story and simply praise you on the wealth of research you have assembled behind this movie, if I called your site a 'grand bricolage of surfaces' as a compliment would you take it as such? I must say that your site has all the intrigue of a professional movie teaser site and it's promising so much...which is why I'm anxious to find whether the final product delivers on all this furious suspense.
Looking forward to seeing 'Costak' on the screen!
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