Rome through the eyes of Cecília Meireles

Abstract

Cecilia Meireles is a traveling poet. When she was returning from her trip to India, she stopped for about two months in Italy. In this brief period, she traveled through different regions, among them: Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Florence and Milan. From those places where she was, Rome seems to have been the most special, so much so that the writeress always had the desire to return to the "eternal city". This study proposes to visit some of the places where the traveler was, what her impressions were and that result, many of them, in poems present in the work dedicated to Italy: Poemas Italianos.