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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Prospiciente
View of the Milan Centrale train station from my room at the Glam Hotel Milano directly across the street. I was able to avoid the rain by using the warren of Metro tunnels under the Piazza Duca D’Aosta. For my … Continue reading
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Scherzi
Throughout Northern Italy, I kept running across paintings of Madonna and Child in the most ridiculous poses… “What is this? Cashmere? This cashmere? So soft!” “Yo. Ma. Make me spend one more night in a manger and I’m gonna garotte … Continue reading
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Proibito
My answer to the question, “How was your vacation in Italy?”
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Vanità II
The House of Medici‘s fingerprints are all over Florence and its history. In 1560, Cosimo I de’ Medici had construction started on a complex of offices (“uffizi”) for the Florentine magistrates. This complex is now the Galleria degli Uffizi and … Continue reading
Tetto
An admittedly terrible picture from the roof of the Uffizi looking out at the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio with the dome of Il Duomo in the distance.
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Vanità
The Piazza della Signoria was the heart of the Republic of Florence. When Charles VIII of France invaded Florence in 1494, Piero the Unfortunate and the rest of the ruling Medici family were forced into exile. For the next several … Continue reading
Guerra
The Monument of Piazza Mentana celebrating the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi against the Franco-Papal troops in the 1867 Battle of Mentana near Rome.
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Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio across the Arno River and the Vasari Corridor along its northern bank. The shops along the bridge made me think of Patrick Süskind‘s novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.Looking back toward the bridge through the arches … Continue reading
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Cipressi
View of the row of (unkempt) Italian cypresses against the Tuscan sky from my hotel room’s little private garden.
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Miscellaneo
The statue of David is a tough act to follow, but the rest of the Galleria dell’Accademia had its own charm. Like this painting called “The Tree of Life” inspired by the the poem written by Franciscan saint Bonaventura da … Continue reading
Marmo
At the Galleria dell’Accademia, I was finally able to satisfy my lifelong ambition to see Michelangelo‘s statue of David.The hallway leading up David was lined with incomplete statues, abandoned and left trapped in marble.
Cattedrale II
I circumnavigated (but didn’t enter) the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. Yet another Gothic cathedral.
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Cortesia
When staying at nicer hotels, I inevitably find myself speaking in the register of a Victorian gentleman: “Could I trouble you to call me a taxi? I should like to go in to the city.”
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