dark-etched

Updated: May 18, 2025

Then begins a passage from some comic opera of Mozart's or Cimarosa's an escapade familiar to Spanish or Italian students, which recalls the stage. It is an episode from 'Don Giovanni, translated to this dark-etched scene of snowy hills, and Gothic tower, and mullioned windows deep embayed beneath their eaves and icicles.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series