At the end of the nineteenth century Gabriele D'Annunzio set in the Gradenigo garden his Venetian novel "The fire" making it the place of love meetings between the protagonists Stelio and Foscarina, a young man who has a relationship with a much older woman, or the poet and actress Eleonora Duse, whose death centenary is being celebrated this year. The Vate represents himself in an impudent transposition of the love that tied him to the most revolutionary actress that our stages have ever had. In the garden their love is consumed, thanks to the sight of the "jeweled pomegranate, shimmering under the firmament". The writer dedicates intense words to this fruit still present in the Gradenigo Garden. We will read passages from the novel and tell the story of the garden that also saw the presence of a giant of cinema, James Ivory, Under the Pergola of Wisteria The American director has written by hand the screenplay for the film _Call me with your name _Who won the Oscar.