Bella Figura Publications

This essay, an excerpt from Dream of Venice, is the Foreword to the book, written by Frances Mayes.   Venice is a State of Mind Venice is a state of mind.  That is, the scintillating, kaleidoscopic, shifting colors of that watery realm remain alive inside me long after I depart the actual city. While there, […]

Lost No More is an excerpt from Dream of Venice Architecture written by J. Michael Welton.   Lost No More I’m an eighth-generation Virginian, a fact that carries some weight in certain parts of the Commonwealth, but precious little elsewhere. It mattered even less in Venice in late September 2012. There, Virginia seemed a quaint and claustrophobic […]