AtDtDA23: The Same Journey as Riemann

[Dave Monroe]

"Kit and Yashmeen walked up from the little hotel ..." (AtD, Pt. III, p. 661)


Intra

Now Verbania, on the shore of Lago Maggiore, Piedmont, in northwest Italy.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_661

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbania
http://www.comune.verbania.it/


Biganzano

Biganzolo di Selasca, Verbania?

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=12090715&CRid=2155848&


"where Riemann's grave was"

Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866)

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=R
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114420

He rests in the churchyard of Biganzolo, in the parish of Selasca. His
gravestone carries the following inscription: Here rest in God Georg
Friedrich Bernhard Riemann Professor at Gottingen Born in Breselenz,
Sept. 17, 1826 Died in Selasca, July 20, 1866 "All things work
together for good to them that love God"? .The epitaph is from St.
Paul's epistle to the Romans. Riemann's grave site no longer exists.
It was destroyed in a later reorganization of the church property. The
inscribed stone survived, though, and has been set in a nearby wall.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12090715

GEORG  FRIEDRICH  BERNHARD  RIEMANN
1826 BRESELENZ  -  1866  SELASCA

http://vco.storiainrete.net/storiainrete/vco/personaggi.nsf/15018844520d86b5c1256afb003c1265/932a5a7c18040c82c1256ea8004d5fbc?OpenDocument


tramontana

Tramontane (Tramuntana, Tramontana) is a classical name for a northern
wind. The exact form of the name and precise direction varies from
country to country. The word came to English from Italian tramontana,
which developed from Latin trānsmontānus (trāns- + montānus), "beyond
the mountains/across the mountains". This explains why in Italy, the
tramontana is the north wind (because the Alps, at the northern end of
Italy, are the mountains referred to). It also explains why the word
has other non-wind-related senses: it can refer to anything that comes
from, or anyone who lives on, the other side of mountains, or even
more generally, anything seen as foreign, strange, or even barbarous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramontane

Cf. favogn, sirocco (p. 656), as well as ...

"the southerly wind." (AtD, Pt. I, Ch.1, p. 3)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114267

North is not a positive place in Pynchon's world. It is associated
with anti-life---coldness as here---compared to the South, a place of
light and warmth, such as the tropics. See GR....

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25


"the same journey as Riemann"

He spent the last years of his life mainly in Italy, in the desperate
attempt to recover from tuberculosis. He passed away in Selasca, Lake
Maggiore, assisted by his wife....

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Riemann&GScid=2155848&GRid=12090715&


Wilhem Weber

Cf. p. 594

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Eduard_Weber
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/WeberWilhelm.html


Baron von Waltershausen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sartorius_von_Waltershausen


"the Seven Weeks' War"

The Austro-Prussian War (also called the Seven Weeks War, the
Unification War, or the German Civil War) was a war fought in 1866
between the Austrian Empire and its German allies and the Kingdom of
Prussia with its German allies and Italy, that resulted in Prussian
dominance over the German states....

Aside from the major impact of birthing the modern unified nation
state and nineteenth-century world power, the war severed the ties the
British royal family had with government in Germany [...].  This,
combined with the formation of the German Empire a few years later
arguably strained Anglo-German relations to a point from which they
never fully recovered in decades leading up to World War I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War

Aftermath and consequences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War#Aftermath_and_consequences


Cassel

http://www.kassel.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel

Kassel  (19th June, 1866)
Prussian forces invade Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt. Hessian
troops fight a delaying action, with about 7,000 troops from Kassel
escaping into southern Germany to link with the Federal Army. The bulk
of the survivors spend the rest of the war garrisoning the fortresses
of Frankfurt and Mainz, where they are besieged for the rest of the
war. Most of Hesse-Darmstadt's forces have already been withdrawn.

http://www.honved.com/austroprussianbattles.html


Hannover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover
http://www.hannover.de/lang/en/index.html


von Arentschildt

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Arentschildt


von Flies

Ich nicht sprechen Deutsche.  Hilfe!


Langensalza

http://www.bad-langensalza.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Langensalza

Langensalza  (27th June, 1866)
Hanoverian troops are attacked by a combined force of troops from
Prussia, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Lubeck, Oldenberg, and Bremen under
General von Flies. In the last battle in the long history of the
Hanoverian
army, the Hanoverians defeat the combined force, and in a touch of
stylish anachronism break several squares with cuirassiers. The
Hanoverians eventually capitulate off the battlefield, unable to link
up with their Bavarian allies, despite the victory.

http://www.honved.com/austroprussianbattles.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_bei_Langensalza
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OSTFRIESEN/1998-07/0900249997


"the final battle for the Veneto"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneto
http://www.regione.veneto.it/channels

Third Italian War of Independence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Italian_Independence_War

The Kingdom of Italy participated in the war with Prussia, because
Austria still held the territory of Venetia wanted by Italy to
complete the process of Italian Unification. In return for Italian aid
against Austria, Bismarck agreed not to make a separate peace until
Italy had obtained Venetia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War#Alliances

In 1866 after the Third War of Independence the Veneto was annexed.
After a controversial referendum, it was occupied by Italian troops,
the Carabinieri. In an effort to "italianize" the population, the
dialects of Venetian were forbidden while often people's surnames and
place names were changed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneto#The_Italian_Period

Venetism is a term used to define an regionalist movement demanding
more autonomy for Veneto from Rome, if not the independence, and
promoting the re-discovery the Republic of Venice's traditions,
culture and language. Venetists consider Veneto as a nation separated
from Italy and often refuse the validity of the result of the
referendum with which Veneto was united with Italy in 1866.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetism


"the summer of Custozza"

Custoza (23rd June, 1866)
Duke Albert of Austria smashes two Italian Armies and effectively
destroys the ability of the Italians to wage organized offensive war
on land against the Austrians. Ironically, the Italians later manage
to acquire Venice, without particularly earning any distinction on the
battlefield.

http://www.honved.com/austroprussianbattles.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Custoza_(1866)
http://www.clash-of-steel.co.uk/pages/battle_details.php?battle=CUSTOZZA01