They are undoubtedly Goethe, who stayed at countless historic establishments during his “Italian Journey”; D’Annunzio, who—whether with or without Eleonora Duse—left broken hearts and unpaid bills everywhere he went; and Ernest Hemingway, a regular at countless historic bars, including the one at the legendary Hotel de La Poste in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
A journey through fascinating facts for film history enthusiasts, presented in the order in which they were discovered. Some of the earliest outdoor film shots were shot at the Excelsior Palace Hotel in Rapallo for the film *Battesimo di nave* (1914), starring and directed by Gian Paolo Rosmino, a historic figure in Italian cinema. At the Caffè Ristorante La Loggia in Florence, in the summer of 1916, Arnoldo Ginna set the scene of the elderly gentleman being accosted by young Futurists (to symbolize the contrast between the traditionalist world and the dynamism of the new culture) in the now-untraceable film “Vita futurista,” conceived, among others, by the father of Futurism, Marinetti, and the painter Balla…