''Entdeckung der blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri'' (Discovery of the Blue Grotto on the Isle of Capri) is an 1838 book by German writer and painter
August Kopisch in which he describes his 1826 rediscovery of the
Blue Grotto in
Capri together with his friend Ernest Fries. The book sparked interest in the island among the
Romantics
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
, particularly in Germany, and introduced the world to the Blue Grotto, both as a tourist sight and as an iconic symbol for the island.
Description
In the book Kopisch describes how he met and became friends with local notary Don Giuseppe Pagano, who told him about the existence of a grotto that the locals presumably knew about but did not enter because of superstition.
Swimming inside, he not only noticed the deeply saturated blue color of the water, but also found remains that suggested the grotto had been used by
Romans
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
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in the past.
After he had returned from the grotto, Kopisch made the first two sketches of it that started a wave of artistic and later photographic depictions of the Blue Grotto.
On his second and third visits, Kopisch also made measurements of the grotto.
Bibliographic information
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References
External links
''Entdeckung der blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri''at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
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Capri, Campania
1838 books
Campania in fiction
German books