Lovers' Leap ---

One spring day in 1871, a Polish musician named Massimiliano Prihoda who was supposed to perform at the Teatro della Scala in Milan, came to visit his relatives who had settled years earlier in Dorga, in Val Seriana. He was so struck by the beauty of the places, especially by the Passo della Presolana, that he decided to return there later with his wife Anna Stereat, a painter. The two often walked as far as the Belvedere, a cliff that was at the end of a path through the woods: the local people became accustomed to that couple of foreigners and began to call them "gli sposi" (the newlyweds). Without any apparent reason, one late September day, after a heavy storm, the two young people went to the cliff; after Anna painted a portrait of her husband and he composed a short melody dedicated