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was later immortalised by Alexandre Dumas’ novel
The Count of Monte Cristo.
It is enough to be immersed in the romanticised
literature to feel the lapping water that cradled the three
masted ship of the young Edmond Dantès, or to imagine
the glittering Eagle that was transformed into an imperial
symbol at the dawn of the nineteenth century. “The
morning’s sun rose clear and resplendent, touching the
foamy waves into a network of ruby-tinted light.” wrote
Dumas before gifting humanity with the story of Abbé
Faria, a gothic character with invisible ink, custodian to
a secret treasure that seduced time in the search for the
“twentieth rock starting from the little creek eastwards
in a straight line”.Man assimilates the privilege of a
territory of conscious success.
“[He] had often passed it, situated twenty-five miles
from Pianosa, between Corsica and the Island of Elba,
and had once touched there. This island was, always
had been, and still is, completely deserted. It is a rock
of almost conical form, which looks as though it had
been thrust up by volcanic force from the depth to
the surface of the ocean.” handwrote the writer in the
novel supplement, published in the Journal des débats,
between August 1844 and January 1846. It is a page of
international vision that aids in rediscovering another of
the worlds dreams, one of Italy’s many wonders.
Clockwise: the Atlantic schooner at anchor; the helm deck; the internal saloon.