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Goethe's Theory of Colours

Note 8 — PART VI. (continued 2)

Charles Lock Eastlake translation

The following quatrain may serve as a specimen; the author is speaking of the importance of the colour of flesh as conducive to picturesque effect:—

"Importa el nudo; e come ben l'importa! Un quadro senta nudo è come aponto Un disnar senza pan, se ben ghe zonto, Per più delicia, confetura e torta."—p. 346.

In his preface he anticipates, and thus answers the objections to his Venetian dialect—"Mi, che son Venetian in Venetia e che parlo de' Pitori Venetiani hò da andarme a stravestir? Guarda el Cielo."

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