Francesco Messina (1900-1995), one of the greatest Italian sculptors of the twentieth century, well known in Japan, he attended the Grand during the sixties for long stays before buying a summer home and a studio in Gardone in via Roma. He was also a poet and the landscape of Gardone inspired some poems published in a book printed by Mondadori in 1973. One of the poem is dedicated to the great camphor of the promonade along the lake: "Green Eyes has the Night. / Venus ingemmest sunrise-white rose on the back of the fairing Baldo. / To the west the moon still keeps the twilight. / Strange images become foggy with vapors of day."
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