Lake Como - References in Literature

References in Literature

  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld retreats to a 'metropolitan hotel' in Lake Como after his plans are foiled by James Bond in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming.
  • Gaius Catullus asks his friend Caecilius to depart from Lake Como to Rome in poem 35.
  • Paul the Deacon, a Lombard grammarian and poet of the 8th century, wrote one of his better known poems in praise of Lake Como (Versus in Laude Larii Laci).
  • Alessandro Manzoni chose to start his The Betrothed with a great description of Como Lake.
  • Fabrice del Dongo, the protagonist of The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, is born and raised near Lake Como.
  • Mark Twain visited Lake Como in the summer of 1867. He describes the lake and its environs at length in The Innocents Abroad, which recounts a lengthy pleasure excursion to Jerusalem.
  • The character of Victor Frankenstein marries Elizabeth in the vicinity of Lake Como in the novel by Mary Shelley.
  • The lake is referenced by Jean in August Strindberg's magnum opus play Miss Julie.
  • Ernest Hemingway's character Lieutenant Henry in A Farewell to Arms talks about taking a vacation to Lake Como.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky mentions Lake Como in his novel Notes from Underground.
  • Nagg and Nell recollect rowing out onto Lake Como the day after their engagement in Samuel Beckett's play Endgame.
  • Cadenabbia on Lake Como is the principal setting for Gladys Theodora Parrish Huntingdon's novel Madame Solario.
  • Maria Ruskin, a character in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, escapes from New York to Lake Como, in order to spend time with Artist Filipo Chirazzi.

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