Twilight in Italy

The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona over the mountains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany.

Pensive and insightful, D. H. Lawrence brought to his work a frankness that had been missing from early 20th-century fiction. Though novels such as Lady Chatterly's Lover, Sons and Lovers, and others incited controversy and censorship for their sexual content, Lawrence was not being prurient; he was simply trying to describe the world around him, in both his fiction and his many letters and essays.