Despina (in Italian): https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina_(mitologia)

windjammer = veliero

Two ways of knowing reality: through calculus and/or through encouter, voiyage, meeting people...

The translator missed a sentence:

"Quella mattina a Dorothea sentii che non c'era bene della vita che non potessi aspettarmi."

"That morning in Dorothea I felt that there was no good in life that I could not expect."

Many towns along the itinerary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities

domare

morsa

liberare

istituzioni inamovibili

So we would frightened... Or we are overwhelmed by complexity, not able to think in a systemic way?

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lanciano

penzolano