Cornell's was a dream voyage.And yet for Cornell the hotel is ambiguous.
The night window also appears in connection with another theme:
the hotel.
Hotels often have names evocative of the sky
and imagination. His extensive library contained volumes complete with hotel and travel information. The hotel as a microcosm of life has been explored many times. At the same time it is hollow and lonely.
Partly through visits to monuments of Renaissance Italy, Roman and Florance Cornell established his link with Medici Princes and Princesses, cultural totems as precious to him as his Renaissance statues and paintings were to the expatriate American Gilbert Osmond. The hotel is infinitely alluring and rich in historical and geographical extensions, its grand facade often culled from Renaissance palaces, its very name derived from the great private residences of the past: the hotels particuliers.
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