AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Mike Weaver]

A quick glance at Google Maps reveals the whole of the north of the 
island is green space and there are other patches to the south of that. 
And we are talking about  100 years ago and more when those spaces might 
well have been fields rather than parks. And there are probably several 
campanulas native or endemic to Italy. The only one it is unlikely to be 
is Italian Bellflower which is native to the mountains.
It is always enjoyable reading the riffing that many of you enjoy as a 
response to P's writing, but sometimes that is what they are - riffs, 
and the original is at base a poetic description.

cheers
Mike


On 18/02/2019 07:43, Jochen Stremmel wrote:
> Right, Mike, there surely is no field of bellflowers in Venice, especially
> not one that emerges at noontide into flower and could be seen from a
> balloon.
>
> Am Mo., 18. Feb. 2019 um 06:42 Uhr schrieb Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
>> This sound/image did cross my mind, but I wasn't sure. Is there place for
>> a field of bellflowers in Murano/Venice? That's noticeable from a balloon?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:07 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What about the bells of Venice, the city, ringing at noontide with all
>>> their might, and the flower being a metaphor for just this?
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> Am Sa., 16. Feb. 2019 um 04:46 Uhr schrieb David Morris <
>>> fqmorris at gmail.com
>>>> :
>>>> My take:
>>>>
>>>> Island Murano's fame is its glass monopoly.  The objects, chimneys, that
>>>> rise, "emerge," above the red clay roofs, are from glass furnaces. Maybe
>>>> the flower imagery is from smoke plumes, but that's pretty weak. But
>>> might
>>>> that smoke be blue, like the bell flower?
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:22 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> campanula's are known as bell flowers as here
>>>>> <https://www.123rf.com/photo_55855915_field-with-wild-bellflower.html
>>>>> On 16/02/2019 00:49, Mike Jing wrote:
>>>>>> P243.1-6   Across the city noontide a field of bells emerged into
>>>> flower,
>>>>>> as the boys came swooping in over Murano, above wide-topped red-clay
>>>>>> chimneys the size of smokestacks, known as fumaioli, according to
>>> the
>>>>> local
>>>>>> pilot, Zanni. “Very dangerous, the sparks, they could blow up the
>>>>> balloon,
>>>>>> certo,” drops of perspiration flying off his face at all angles, as
>>> if
>>>>>> self-propelled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What does "a field of bells emerged into flower" mean here?
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