A visitor's book for the peninsula – Turner, Goethe, Shelley, Hemingway, Truman Capote, Eric Newby, Keats, Cecil Beaton, Stendhal, Dickens – as well as locals' thoughts – Dante, Primo Levi, Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Verga, Italo Calvino – from one line to a couple of pages each and organised, inexplicably, according to the four classical elements of earth, water, fire and air.