Light in the Piazza

“Nobody with a dream should come to Italy. No matter how dead and buried you think it is, in Italy, it will rise and walk again.”

This brilliant line is from the 1962 movie Light in the Piazza, starring an older (and still lovely) Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, Rossano Brazzi, and a very young and very tan (surprised?) George Hamilton. Having lived in Southern Italy, this quote strikes me… over many centuries, so many different people tried to conquer Naples… the Greeks, the Romans, the Normans, the French, the Germans, and one might even suggest, the British tourists who visited and often stayed during the era of The Grand Tour. And yet, Napoli, like that dream that never dies, continues to flourish. Still today despite living in the shadow of an active volcano, crazy politics, and economic conditions that are tumultuous, Neapolitans manage to rise and walk again.

Does this quote resonate in you?  Please share your thoughts with us.
~Alysse Turner

Here’s the link for the movie on IMBD:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056183/