tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46588937076447020542023-11-16T07:02:42.979-08:00ITALY'S SECRET PLACESItaly is full of marvels hidden in plain sight. Beautiful and Inspiring… Funny and Disconcerting… Glorious and Silly… Every new day brings shocks of recognition. Can I share some of these with you?Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-28349023053556282019-01-28T06:16:00.000-08:002019-01-28T06:16:18.744-08:00COMING ON MARCH 23, 2019!<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">PLACE AND TIME:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Florence, in 1614, during the Carnival season.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The story unfolds</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">—scene after scene--in the course of a single day.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">ACT ONE</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 1 A
FLORENTINE STREET</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 2 THE
HOME OF GIROLAMO AMIERI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 3 THE
HOME OF AMBROGIO BORDONI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 4 IN THE
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 5 THE HOME OF ALAMANNO TOLOSINI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 6 THE
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 7 THE
HOME OF ALAMANNO TOLOSINI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 8 ON THE
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 9 IN THE STREET</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 10 THE HOME OF ALAMANNO TOLOSINI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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INTERMISSION: DESSERT, FRUIT, COFFEE AND TEA WILL BE SERVED</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">ACT TWO</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 1 IN THE STREET </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 2 MELCHISEDEC’S HOME IN THE
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 3 IN THE STREET
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 4 IN THE STREET </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 5 UPSTAIRS IN THE TOLOSINI HOME </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 6 UPSTAIRS IN THE TOLOSINI HOME</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 10 THE HOME OF GIROLAMO AMIERI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 11 THE HOME OF ALAMANNO TOLOSINI</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 12 IN THE STREET
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 13 THE HOME OF AMBROGIO
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: IT;">SCENE 15 IN THE STREET</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">ABOUT <i>L’EBREO</i>:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">A world première, no less! This rollicking comedy— with a Jew in the
title role—was written for the Carnival of 1614 at the Medici Court, by
Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (great-nephew, heir and namesake of the
celebrated painter, sculptor and architect). </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">“Think Molière,” says Tony Gallo (’93), who is directing the staged
reading, “but better!” Buonarroti (1568-1646) and Moliere (1622-73) were both
intrigued by the Italian <i>commedia
dell’arte</i>, with its manic energy, exaggerated characters and preposterous
conflicts. But what is a Jew doing in the midst of this comic mayhem—especially
a Turkish Jew named Melchisedec (“King of the Righteous”), with a turban, a
long robe and a hennaed beard? </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">“1614 was a wild time in the Tuscan capital,” Ed Goldberg explained,
“especially when it came to the Jewish population. Rich Sephardic merchants
were arriving from the Ottoman Empire, forming a small but exclusive circle in
the local ghetto. With their exotic dress, foreign manners and evident wealth,
they seized everyone’s attention—in the streets of Florence and at the Medici
Court.”</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Edward Goldberg is a Washington native with a Ph.D. from Oxford. For most
of the last forty years, he has lived in Florence, exploring public and private
archives. Along the way, he published various books and articles, including <i>Jews and Magic in Medici Florence </i>and <i>A Jew at the Medici Court </i>(both
University of Toronto Press, 2011).</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">What about Michelangelo the Younger’s play, <i>L’Ebreo (The Jew)</i>? Goldberg discovered the autograph manuscript in
the Casa Buonarroti, that family’s historic <i>palazzo</i>,
only a few blocks from his own home. In scene after raucous scene, we see
Melchisedec—a classic <i>Levantino </i>(Jew
from the East)—surrounded by boisterous characters from the <i>commedia dell’arte</i>: impetuous young
lovers, overbearing elders, riotous servants and gossipy neighbors, plus a
pompous lawyer and a scheming marriage broker. We watch them trip over each
other’s feet in the mad whirl of the Florentine Carnival, the annual silly
season between Epiphany (Twelfth Night) and Lent.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">“Melchisedec is the ultimate anti-Shylock”, Goldberg observed. “Ironic
but good-natured. Always in on the joke.”</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">“Buonarroti was far less tolerant, when it came to lawyers,” Gallo noted
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Brilliant and lively, richly evocative of Late Renaissance Florence, <i>L’Ebreo (The Jew) </i>seems like a
guaranteed hit. So, why did it have to wait four hundred years for its début on
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">“No one could read it!” Goldberg sighed. “Buonarroti abandoned <i>L’Ebreo</i> as a scrawled draft, with a
dense overlay of cross-outs and rewrites. Thank God for high-resolution
photography! Thank God for image-enhancement!”</span></b></span></span></div>
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words. Next, he needed to delve beneath layers of revision to reveal the play’s
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<br />Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-70824746735917812022014-04-01T06:42:00.000-07:002014-04-01T10:05:02.469-07:00A Day for Hasan... (Melbourne/Florence)<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Self-invented rituals are always a little ridiculous - no matter how deeply they might be felt.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But whenever I see </span></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Raphael's <i>Madonna del Cardellino (Madonna of the Goldfinch) </i></span></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in the Uffizi Gallery here in Florence, I always think of Hasan Niyazi and his obsession with this picture. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, my bright idea for 6 April 2014 (Raphael's Birthday and our Day for Hasan) was to go to the vast gift shop at the Uffizi and buy a mousepad with the <i>Madonna del Cardellino</i> - thereby wrapping up Raphael, Technology and Hasan Niyazi in a neat package. (I still use </span></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a mouse and for me a</span></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> mousepad seems dashingly high-tech.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While the Uffizi offers a dazzling array of mousepads, they didn't have the model I required. Sure, I could have ordered one online (like you see above) and had it delivered. But that seemed somehow impure.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">So, it was on to Plan B... I bought a funny little tray. Then Alexandra Korey - another friend of Hasan's - and I took it out to lunch.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He had the <i>Madonna del Cardellino</i> right there in front of him in his art cave - </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">along with the youthful Raphael (?) <i>Self-portrait, </i>also from the Uffizi.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">For Hasan, gestures like this were never casual. He constantly defined his own identity through images - and shared the latest permutations with others. And every shift was intensely considered </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">13 February 2013: "I also recently changed my profile images. The <i>Madonna del Cardellino </i>still does not seem impressed..."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">23 February 2013, "Laserbeam Sam<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">*</span> has blended
into the Madonna del Cardellino's drapery. I have taken the colour from
my own image to perhaps show that I'd prefer the focus be the art, yet
there's no ignoring the fact that much of this is about me - also , in a
practical sense keeping my pic in colour made it look like a weird
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: small;">*"Laserbeam Sam" was one of Hasan's many nicknames for </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: small;">than "Hasan" in his professional life as a physiotherapist.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">much of this is about me..."</span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">That's saying the very least! I didn't go to the Uffizi with Hasan - so we didn't see the <i>Madonna del Cardellino </i>together. This, he insisted, needed to be a private experience - and who was I to argue? (When we went to Rome, I waited for him under the portico of the Pantheon while he paid his respects at Raphael's tomb.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When Hasan came to Florence, he knew that photography was strictly forbidden in the Uffizi Gallery. So, on 16 August, - well in advance of his trip - he shared his latest creation, "Ed let me send you this subtle
mashup now; it may prevent me from being accused of taking a photo
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Granducal decree forbidding building on the <i>Rovinate</i> site after the subsidence </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">that nearly destroyed the <i>Madonna del Cardellino</i>, on 12 November 1547.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">In Florence, Hasan and I visited the site of the <i>Rovinate </i>(The Ruined Houses) - where the <i>Madonna del Cardellino</i> was smashed into seventeen pieces by a landslide in 1547. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I will always be grateful that Hasan lived long enough to publish his <i>Madonna del Cardellino </i>entry on <i>Three Pipe Problem</i> - a foretaste of what we could have expected from <i>Open Raphael Online.</i> It appeared on 3 August 2013 (less than three months before his death).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Madonna of the Goldfinch</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">The title itself is startling. And this is the most boldly autobiographical of Hasan's many posts. In talking about the <i>Madonna del Cardellino</i>, he does not pretend for a minute that he is not talking about himself as well. In the first paragraph, he jumps right into his main theme:</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Among all of Raphael's great works, his </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Madonna of the Goldfinch</span></span></b></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
has a strong personal resonance. The wonderfully rich story of its
creation, destruction and restoration is representative of all that is
possible when talented individuals are dedicated to creating and
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Creation, destruction and restoration" was the principal motif of Hasan's absurdly short life, along with "creating and maintaining ...great beauty and cultural value" against daunting odds. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Hasan endured the sort of miserable childhood that most of us only see in movies or read about in books. In later years, he shared haunting "lonely child" photos with his closest friends - silently begging us to ask tough questions so that he could put his experiences into words.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Few have needed to believe</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"> as deeply and desperately</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"> as Hasan in the transformational power of art and the abiding value of humane scholarship. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">In his teens, he began constructing his own world of "great beauty and cultural value". For many long years, this </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">world </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">was strictly private - and it was never easy for Hasan to believe that other people shared his interests and admired his accomplishments.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Almost exactly a year ago, two days before Raphael's last birthday, Hasan sent me this note:</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sent: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 3:50 am</span></span></span></i><br />
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Subject: 6 months on </span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am noting it has been a nice, round, 6
months since I embarked for Florence. Since my return, I can only say
that I have a sense of {?}ambition to do "more", but there is so much
that is missing or needs to be done, that I wonder if I were better off
having no ambition at all. But of course, I don't see these factors discouraging me any time soon, so in the interim, onwards and upwards. </span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">And jumping back even farther, on 16 January 2012, Hasan sent me a semi-whimsical status report on <i>Open Raphael Online</i>:</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This may give you a sense of the scale of my upcoming task - not to
mention it may give you a giggle... I've made an openraphael bingo card so
I can keep track of what I've done... this is how things stand at the
moment! Of course remember the 52 scenes from the Loggia are not
included, nor the drawings in the image below! I can assure you Ed, I
intend to see it through, unless some very dire health calamity befalls
me - which I hope does not! </span></span></span></i><br />
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silence. But today, they scaled new heights of mythic grandeur. Just a
few hours before the Fiorentina - Lazio game, the city was blanketed
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">We find ourselves under siege, for yet another time in our history. In the past, we were invaded by the armies of foreign kings. Today, there is a gang of slimy characters who think they can divide and conquer us through the gross abuse of their power.</span></span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">That will not happen - today or ever. We will never be divided nor will we bend our knee. </span></span></span></i></b></div>
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past to (more or less) amusing one-liners. So, I am fair game for those
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Viva il Duce</i>... on a lavatory door in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Today, the following appeared in my in-box, from a kindred spirit in a country just across the border from Italy:</span></span><br />
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absolutely no fan of Mussolini, nor of fascism, though I must admit
that to watch to Benito shouting its idioties to ignorant crowds has
somehow appeal. How can peoples' minds be so blind! </span></span></i></span></div>
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I've being completing my accessories for the coming winter; I'd so much
like to buy a hat like Benito's ones. But I haven't yet found out the
brand he wore. Could you help me? Does the brand still exist ?</span></span></i></span></div>
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For a mere 25 euros, Mussolini's hat can be yours--if you don't mind
giving money to violent, racist, holocaust-denying thugs whose values
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is probably not the same brand that Mussolini wore and I cannot vouch
for its quality - especially since the company seems to specialize in
rather uninspiring American-style baseball caps with white surprematist
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I am always glad to be of service. But now that you know that you <u>can</u> acquire </span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">il berretto di Mussolini</span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">, might I make a polite suggestion? DON'T DO IT! <br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rosemarie Mulcahy, a distinguished historian of Spanish and Italian art - and a dear friend - died on 5 September 2012. Today, marking the first anniversary, there will be a memorial celebration at 1:30 pm at Newman House, St. Stephen's Green,
Dublin.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">I
am grateful to have seen Rosemarie barely two weeks before her stunningly
unexpected death. She and her husband Seán always spent a week in August with friends at
Castiglioncello, on the Tuscan coast. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So I popped down for lunch, from my home in Florence.</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">It
was a very pleasant lunch, on a terrace overlooking the sea—but just a lunch.
We were old friends who had hung out together countless times in the past and
we fully expected to continue doing so in the future. Rosemarie and I talked
mostly about her many plans—for publications, travel and a prestigious lecture
tour in Spain. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now a year has passed—but
can any of us believe it? I
am still not ready to think of Rosemarie Mulcahy in the past tense.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>ROSEMARIE: A FEW THOUGHTS</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>We
all have our own treasured memories of Rosemarie Mulcahy, so you can imagine how
much I wish that I was with you in Dublin today, hearing your stories and
sharing your recollections. But I am in Washington, DC, at the moment—far from
my home in Florence, Italy.</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps
a little mental exercise can help us connect—at least in spirit? What if we all closed our eyes and formulated
a quick list of Rosemarie’s defining qualities—the essential characteristics
that made Rosemarie Mulcahy Rosemarie Mulcahy? </span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">I
am now thinking of her in personal terms—as a scholar but even more, as a human
presence. And—God knows!—her human
presence was certainly compelling! </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">“Non è una che passa inosservata”</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">, an
Italian friend commented. </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">“She isn’t the sort who passes unnoticed.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Here—in
any case—are some of the adjectives that popped into my mind. Rosemarie Mulcahy was:</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Rosemarie and </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #999999;">Seán beneath the Leaning Tower in Pisa.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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one, I think, will disagree with any of those traits. But—truth be told—they
were not the very first that occurred to me. For those, could we try “outspoken”
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back over the years, I realize that the situations I recall with the greatest
pleasure usually involve Rosemarie being annoyed with something or someone—me, for example. And she did not hesitate to express herself—in
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the scholarly context, Rosemarie had absolutely no patience for those who fell
short of her exacting standards. Years ago, on a flight to Dublin, I found
myself seated next to a young lady who was still recovering from the trauma of
an inadequately prepared undergraduate paper. From Rosemarie, it elicited a
terse, “Well. Yes. Thank you.” Followed by a full stop and a thunderous
silence. The student, I hasten to add, rewrote the paper and did quite well in
the course but decided (probably wisely) that art history wasn’t for her.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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restless energy emerged in non-academic situations as well. She was, of course,
the very best company imaginable —all was right with her world when she was
huddled up with friends, around a laden table or at a crowded bar. And nothing quite equaled the dizzying
experience of traveling with Rosemarie.
Minute by minute, the trip would veer from a royal progress to an
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will never forget some years ago when
Seán, Rosemarie, my brother Lyle and I embarked on a swing through upper Lazio,
north of Rome, looking mostly at romanesque churches and Etruscan tombs. And late every afternoon, with the force of
inevitable ritual, we would enact the same little existential crisis:</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Rosemarie</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: “Well, I am sure that we are all
ready for a nice bottle of </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Prosecco</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">”
(a dry white sparkling wine from Northern Italy).</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Me</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: “No doubt—but we can’t have it. We are in a
small town in Lazio. They don’t drink </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Prosecco</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> here.”</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Rosemarie</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: “Nonsense! You can get perfectly
good </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Cava</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> absolutely anywhere in
Spain.”</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Me</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: “Yes, but Tuscania (or Cerveteri, or
Tarquinia, or Viterbo) is not in Spain and </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Prosecco</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">
is not </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Cava</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">.”</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Rosemarie
never found that argument particularly compelling and the next scene would
feature her breezing off into the nearest
bar or caffè, with the rest of us trailing behind. Then she would
install us all at a table and grandly summon a bottle of Prosecco—which the flustered waiter or waitress would regret they
didn’t have (and probably never even heard of.) </span></span></span></i></span><br />
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we would fall back on an excellent local white—we were in prime wine country,
after all. And Rosemarie would sigh and contemplate an exemplary sacrifice,
“Well, under the circumstances, <u>I suppose</u>…” She would frown at her glass of Frascati or
Orvieto for a statutory three minutes—and then make up for lost time.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Rosemarie’s
unique approach to problem-solving found its purest expression when she was
faced with advanced technology—or indeed, anything that had moving parts. </span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Like
the lockers in the cloakroom in the Florentine National Archive… I can still
hear her sharp exclamation, “What <u>are</u> these people thinking?!”—even
after her twentieth encounter with the same hostile machine. </span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Basically,
every Archive user inserts a combination of their own invention and then uses
it to retrieve their bags and books and whatever. And admittedly, you do need
to hit the “Set” button just the right way—which no one does the first time
around. </span></span></span></i></span><br />
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every morning, the same drama ensued. Rosemarie would arrive, spin dials and
push buttons to no effect, and exclaim, “What <u>are</u> these people
thinking?!”— then shove her satchel under a nearby sofa, more or less out of
sight.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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back into the mists of time—how many years did it take Rosemarie to make her
peace with e-mail? Ireland is usually cited as the most tech-savvy country in
the world—but it is clear that the statisticians never interviewed Rosemarie
Mulcahy. Suffice it to say that she was the last person on earth with whom I communicated
by <u>fax</u>—well into the present century.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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few weeks ago, while discussing today’s celebration with Peter Cherry, I
alluded to Rosemarie’s protracted stand-off with even elementary technology.
And Peter commented in reply, “I recall how much Rosemarie loved her new <u>iPad</u>!
So, maybe she was embracing change, after all.”</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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what?! Rosemarie with an iPad? I regret never having seen <u>that</u> with my
own eyes. Still, it is a mental image
that I will treasure for the rest of my life—and if anyone has a photo, please
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perpetual ability to surprise… Here is another defining quality for our list!
No matter how long we knew Rosemarie, we never for a minute imagined that we
had seen or heard it it all. There were always fresh archival discoveries,
unnoticed works of art and unexpected historical deductions. There were
ambitious new projects. There were not-to-be-missed conferences and exhibitions
of which no one else had heard.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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most often, I would pick up the telephone and there would be Rosemarie
proclaiming, “Edward, you absolutely <u>must</u> meet...so-and-so.” Usually someone passing through Florence. The
world is full of people who would never have known each other if it wasn’t for
Rosemarie Mulcahy—and that, I suspect, was her greatest contribution of all. </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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I am ready to start drafting another little list—friends of Rosemarie’s who are
now friends of mine. Including—of </span></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">course—many or most of you here <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>today.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Photos 1 and 2 (detail): Sent to me by Rosemarie.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Photos 3 through 13: Lyle Goldberg.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-3502747241326315992013-08-12T00:32:00.001-07:002013-08-14T09:17:32.865-07:00ART vs. NO ART (Detroit/Florence)<br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">14 August 2013</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bloggers around the world focus attention on the Detroit Institute of Arts - and its current plight.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"You can only sell a unique work of art once. Then you don't have it any more and you never will and you are poorer forever."</span></i></span></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Medici-Orsini Vase.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This masterpiece of tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) was realized in Tuscany
around 1470 to mark the wedding of Lorenzo "the Magnificent" de' Medici and Clarice Orsini. Their confronted arms signal the dynastic importance of this event.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Medici-Orsini Vase is an essential part of Florentine History - but also of Detroit history. Since its acquisition in 1937, it has figured as one of DIA's most iconic treasures. And speaking personally, it is usually the first thing that I go to see when I visit that great museum. (I realize that not everyone is quite as obsessive about the Medici as I am.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Except now - from 25 March through 6 October - the Medici-Orsini vase is to be found only a few blocks from my home in Florence, on loan to a fascinating show in the Medici Chapels at San Lorenzo, <i>Amid Medici Splendor: Pope Leo X and Florence</i>. (Pope Leo X was the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and Clarice Orsini, so the Detroit vase represents the beginning of the story.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you live in Florence and care about art, Detroit - and the Detroit Institute of Arts - feels very near. There is a long tradition of great collaborative shows realized by DIA and the Florentine Museums. To name only a few superstars: <i>The Twilight of the Medici</i> (1974), <i>Italian Sculpture in the Time of Donatello </i>(1985), <i>The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence</i> (2002-3).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">DIA has always been recognized as an exemplary citizen in the world of museums, eager to cooperate with others and conspicuously generous in loaning selected treasures to appropriate shows. In addition to the Medici-Orsini Vase, two important </span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Detroit </span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">objects are now in Florence - at the overwhelmingly beautiful <i>Springtime of the Renaissance </i> in Palazzo Strozzi.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This <i>Madonna and Child</i> from 1445-50 is a superb example of Luca della Robbia's glazed terracotta technique and - astonishingly enough - it retains most of its original gilding. Since 1929, it has been beloved by visitors to DIA.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This intriguing Florentine terracotta relief of the <i>Nativity</i>, with traces of color and gilding was created around 1420-30, by an artist in the circle Donatello or Lorenzo Ghiberti. It entered DIA in 1976, after many years in the Ford Collection - an impeccable Motown provenance! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jan van Eyck's sublime little panel of <i>Saint Jerome in His Study</i> was painted probably in Bruges around 1425. In 1492, </span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, </span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">it was listed in the inventory of the Medici Palace in Florence. In 1925, it was acquired by the City of Detroit for DIA. And soon, it will be appearing in a gorgeous show at the Museo di San Marco, <i>Mathew Corvinus and Florence </i>(10 October 2013 - 6 January 2014).</span></span></span></div>
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Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-33823110843698001322013-07-17T02:34:00.000-07:002013-07-17T09:32:37.137-07:00INK (Florence)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">VIVA FIORENZA = Long Live Florence!*</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">* A Pedantic Footnote: The historically accurate formula is actually "Evviva Fiorenza"</span></span></span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Florentines pride themselves on being a tough-minded, no-nonsense race. But still, they often wear their hearts on their sleeves - or else directly inked on their arms and other body parts.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Above, we have a friend and neighbor of mine - and a proud <i>Bianco di Santo Spirito - </i>a bit worse for the wear, after the finals of the <i>Calcio Storico </i>(historic football) in Piazza Santa Croce on 24 June 2012 (the Feast of John the Baptist, Florence's patron saint.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Below, another proud <i>Bianco </i>after the match.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Below, Florence Stadium on 15 July 2013. A mythic tribal event - the presentation of a newly acquired football star, Mario Gomez ... the Man of Our Dreams.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>La Nazione</i>, front page, 16 July 2013.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">"The parents with their children on their shoulders were screaming, as were the </span></i><span style="color: #cccccc;">ultras</span><i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> (hardcore fans), their backs marked with tattoos."</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <i>non plus ultra</i> (no pun intended) of Florentine tattoos. A veritable greatest hits album. Clockwise, from the upper left:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <i>Giglio </i>(Florentine Lily)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And all of this superimposed on yet another <i>Giglio</i> - evidently deemed insufficiently expressive on its own.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">How long has it been since I fielded a new post? A quick glance at my Archive tells me that it was way back in December 2012. (For the record: <em>YIKES!</em>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">The emblem did not emerge in a big way until the <em>Risorgimento</em> (the nationalist movement that gave rise to the Italian state a hundred and fifty years ago).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> "The Women of Italy", with the arms of the </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">ruling</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> House of Savoy</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> imposed on a radiating star.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Then, there was a proliferation of star names, star allusions and star motifs. In small towns across Italy, we still encounter quaint hotels, restaurants and cafes - proclaiming a single guiding light for a very diverse new country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">And in 1914, the Colonial Order of the Star of Italy was founded, to honor meritorious service in the Italian Colonies -characteristically awarded to </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">native collaborators.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Colonial Star, with the royal crown, the initials of King Vittorio Emmanuele and the date of 1911 (the Italian invasion of Tripoli).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Only in 1948, however, did the star become the national ur symbol - with the proclamation of the Italian Republic and an intense wave of political rebranding. Since 1861, the Kingdom of Italy had lurched through a long series of visually congested coats of arms - heraldic mash-ups referencing the royal house of Savoy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a name='more'></a><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Florence and Siena are two strangely parallel universes. In fact, they have almost everything in common (socially, culturally and linguistically) - but their respective inhabitants would deny that to the last breath...even under torture. <br /><br />To make a long story short: The Florentines conquered Siena in 1555 and occupied it for over three hundred years, until the Sienese voted to join the Kingdom of Italy in 1859 (or rather, "the Kingdom of Non-Florence", as it was popularly viewed.)<br /><br />In the interval, no one could deny that the Sienese learned to do two things supremely well: (1) make traditional sweets, and (2) bear a grudge</span>. </span>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"There is nothing wrong with Siena," Florentines are quick to admit, "if you don't mind living in a <em>panforte</em> package."<br /><br />That is another way of saying that the clock ran out in 1555 and the Sienese have been burrowing deeper and deeper ever since. Under thick layers of historical quaintness. Not to mention honey, nuts, candied fruit and powdered sugar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">This remarkable event - sweetly nostalgic and dementedly violent - occurs on 2 July and 16 August (thereby guaranteeing Siena's appearance at the bottom of the evening news twice a year.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">But the most overwhelming spectacle of all passes largely unnoticed. It takes place immediately after the second Palio, in the relative lull before the Christmas season - while the Sienese are recovering from their wounds and nursing their celebratory hangovers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Crates on a package of </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;"><em>panforte nero / </em></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;">black panforte </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">A typically cynical Florentine friend recently commented, "The Italians like the idea of liking culture" - followed by a shrug of the shoulders and a heavy silence. This was a direct response to the government's drastic cuts to the nation's arts budget - resulting in the near closure of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a celebrated international festival of theater and music that began operation in 1933.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">But liking the idea of liking culture is no small achievement in its own right, even if it is sometimes the beginning and the end of the story. And for Italians, their collective identification with art and history cuts right across social and economic divisons. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">To quote an American friend with an Italian wife (not to mention Italian children and grandchildren), "In the United States, going to museums and the opera can lose you elections. Here, it can help you win them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">So, let me ask you a question... In America, what are the chances of a serious archival historian (like Edward Goldberg) being invited to participate in an awards ceremony with show business celebrities - honoring a fun but scholarly book like <i>Jews and Magic in Medici Florence</i>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Left to right, 2012 Flaiano Prize Winners for Italian Culture: </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Alfred Noe (Vienna), Edward Goldberg (Florence) </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">and Philip Cooke (Glasgow), plus Presenters Antonella Salvucci and Dario Vergassola.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">This fragile seaside paradise was not wiped off the face of the earth but buried far beneath it, under dozens of feet of volcanic ash. The inhabitants had already been killed - vaporized actually - by blasts of gas reach 250</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">° C.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Pompeii and its neighbors Herculaneum and Stabiae disappeared from sight and then from mind - until 1738. Builders in the service of Carlo Borbone, King of Naples, then began turning up beautiful and intriguing if sometimes</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> shocking remains from the rich volcanic soil of local gardens and vineyards. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">Excavations began ten years later in 1748, stripping away layer after layer of earth and ash. Revealing the intact urban fabric of Pompeii, as it was on the last day of its natural life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Welcome to the </span><i style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Orecchio di Dionisio </i><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Ear of Dionysus)</span><i style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </i><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the</span><i style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Latomia di Paradiso</i><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (Stone Quarry of Paradise) in Syracuse, Sicily - one of the most haunted places on earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Probably the most celebrated visitor to this fatal spot was the tormented painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">He made the pilgrimage in 1609 - in the last </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">months </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">of his </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">te</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">mpestuous </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">life, while fleeing a charge of murder in Rome. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">And then, there is the sweet sensation of toying with the past - reducing ancient glories to our idle pleasure.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Welcome to Megara Hyblaea! On the southeastern coast of Sicily. Among the oldest Greek colonies on the island. Founded in the Eighth Century, B.C.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Nine photos from Megara Hyblaea and Selinunte © Lyle Goldberg</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Two photos (numbers 8 & 11) from the Web.</span>Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-77287480359479049662012-03-05T03:45:00.003-08:002012-03-05T23:59:05.390-08:00WHOSE HOLOCAUST? (Florence)<div class="separator" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3XUqu1LxGhzOiKTNRqXxLf7vI2WlJU_QFAE6K8RHDFBPZzG8W4unm9a78SDKR43xI_N8nOAnlrRcEXzAKYLFrUSDkcdC8SBqlo9gjDs88TC264EYHrwky9qRlmaXs68xBtCbIxhWIOAg/s1600/M1+edit2+DSC_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3XUqu1LxGhzOiKTNRqXxLf7vI2WlJU_QFAE6K8RHDFBPZzG8W4unm9a78SDKR43xI_N8nOAnlrRcEXzAKYLFrUSDkcdC8SBqlo9gjDs88TC264EYHrwky9qRlmaXs68xBtCbIxhWIOAg/s320/M1+edit2+DSC_0005.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This School</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Forged their Spirits for such Magnanimous Enterprises</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And it proudly inscribes for posterity </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Their Names and their Example:</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">16 May 1937 (Year 15 Fascist Era)</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">"Ethiopia" refers to Mussolini's brief but bloody attempt at empire-building in Africa. And back in the 1930s, <span style="color: #cc0000;">olocausto / holocaust </span>was a word that any graduate of an Italian Classical High School would have known - from ancient literature, not current events.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;"><em>Nathan Cassuto had been Chief Rabbi of Florence, following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, Rabbi Umberto Cassuto. He was also a practicing opthamologist. And he died at Gross Rosen in Lower Silesia at the age of thirty-five.</em></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><em>We can also count the historian and archivist Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti as a collateral victim of <span style="color: #cc0000;">The Holocaust</span>. </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Although raised in the faith of her Catholic mother, not her Jewish father, she was fired by the Florentine National Archive in 1938. After working briefly in the Vatican Archive, she joined the anti-Nazi resistance. Then in June 1944, she was captured by the Germans in Sesto Fiorentino (a few miles from Florence), tortured and eventually shot.</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-1487752099639241522012-02-19T08:56:00.001-08:002012-02-29T12:26:32.021-08:00MARRIAGE RUSSIAN (?) STYLE (Florence)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyclUlw8pTzZlbGdN8s2ZEj5-CCXdT8W1nBzxdUXzhHaIBCrWGbc7gSEXD8-eUPZgkON2klx33cS0_EYhC16hzviTFOvFcNs7UloVrGxnfoF25ZO6nKDAmTuItA9kk7OQmdjUd5Nnlaw/s1600/E+DSC_0158.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">It is 4:20 pm on 17 June 2009 and they have just left Palazzo Vecchio, right across the piazza, after a color-coordinated ceremony. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">PHOTOGRAPHS: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Photos 1-4 and 6-10 © Lyle Goldberg</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Photo 5 from the Web</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"></div>Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-56412105029702807322012-02-17T05:28:00.014-08:002012-02-29T12:18:37.133-08:00FLORENTINE STREET CREDS (Florence)<div class="separator" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYouNB1MuZCsXpLe1kwzd9Vkp3SG773jNEaj2DTninJ2_tW4jgHeUJM4QM9vy9k01nflRmXvEq2gjetRo7yB45vXbEEsFQupc0fRuMYWmEw_SGGim2Ceupl61vE5iy1BhZz07-rA-TL3o/s1600/C+DSC_0003+detail.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYouNB1MuZCsXpLe1kwzd9Vkp3SG773jNEaj2DTninJ2_tW4jgHeUJM4QM9vy9k01nflRmXvEq2gjetRo7yB45vXbEEsFQupc0fRuMYWmEw_SGGim2Ceupl61vE5iy1BhZz07-rA-TL3o/s320/C+DSC_0003+detail.JPG" width="191" yda="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><em>"Ridotti come siamo, </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><em>n</em></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><em>on riesco più a conoscere i turisti!"</em></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"We've fallen apart so badly, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">I </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">can't even pick out the tourists anymore!"</span></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">An allarming prospect, to be sure! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</div></div>Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-49210301576587413222012-01-01T02:04:00.004-08:002012-03-06T08:35:46.312-08:00MUSSOLINI (RE)WRITES HISTORY (Segesta/ Calatafimi)<div class="separator" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lQ4gHInHFqqNiq0iZmygEoycgfQZAnyq_Kk6BU9tL1YoYuSYRZ6WCP9pO1Vatur3LUb_T24OaHQbXT6I6nmYnR4QcAq6iCU9RM1z2cE3W5K28Y7jbQvU4iIpJdIto-m0sA_pqb-FVzw/s320/G1+DSC_0770_3+detail.JPG" width="225" /></div><img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqqLHrZwxmQuUniSmI8b9auccMGxWxdOC3u3OGUTANnblAd_A9ut4jfmY1uppV_XvesGfqvGlwG0i4aAOeCaS4MMec73Fr5X-8w2mwbMrj5tZ2fuyofKBvGYRV3dakvt461fqeuVQnUoQ/s320/G1+DSC_0115+detail+1a+trim.JPG" width="232" /><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Calatafimi is a lively small town, founded by the Arabs - who called it <em>Kalat-al-fimi</em> (Castle of Eufemius), evidently alluding to a previous Roman or Byzantine fortification. Little was heard of the place, however, until 15 May 1860 when Giuseppe Garibaldi and his thousand red-shirts engaged the forces of the Bourbon Kings - leading the way to the unification of Italy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">N.B. Did a Goldberg fight alongside Garibaldi at Calatafimi? Quite likely! In the official list of the <em>Mille</em>, there is an </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/31034559/Garibaldi-I-MILLE"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Antonio Goldberg</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> (<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Mille"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><em>born</em></span></a> in Hungary in 1826 - <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Mille"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><em>died</em></span></a> in Naples or Salerno in 1862; along with a surprising...or not?...number of other Jews.)</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">But how do you get from Segesta to Calatafimi (or Calatafimi to Segesta)? Without losing track of the official story line?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">In fact, the Theater was first excavated in 1927 - a year before the sign was put in place. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">And for as long as I can remember, there has been a perverse genius at a desk somewhere in Palazzo Vecchio (<city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Florence</place></city>'s City Hall). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">With a unique talent for the improbable and access to a lethal range of <em>special effects</em>.</span></span><br />
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</div></div>Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658893707644702054.post-13916686906262181482011-11-05T10:29:00.001-07:002014-09-10T06:01:45.457-07:00GOING TO THE INDIAN: Part 2 (Florence)<div class="separator" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt;">The Ponte Vecchio and <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Arno</placename> <placetype w:st="on">River</placetype></place>, from an </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times; font-size: 24pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">These days, however, many locals have forgotten that there was a real Indian in the story: </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">A vast pyre was needed to cremate the body and it had to be constructed at the juncture of two rivers. And conveniently enough, the <placename w:st="on">Mugnone</placename> <placetype w:st="on">River</placetype> branches off the Arno at the farthest reach of the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Cascine</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Park</placetype></place>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">I have been living in Florence for as long as I can remember. But sometimes, there are still too many layers of <em>fiorentinità</em> ("Florentineness") to peel away.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">BUT THEN, we pass through the looking glass, into a whole other world...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">So, what about THE CHICAGO CONNECTION? And David peering into the ninetieth-story of the Sears Tower?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"Oh, dear God! </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Not ANOTHER Etruscan Necropolis!"</span></span></div><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"<em>THAT'S</em> THE PROBLEM... Haven't we had enough eternity for one day?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"So are you saying, DON'T STOP HERE?!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;"></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Back in the old days, this region (the coastal border-land between Tuscany and Latium) was merely malarial. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">From a distance, it looks like an old mining camp - with a huddle of cabins at the mine heads and grassed-over slag heaps. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcgHP86pZJSdCvIhIiP1v2ZQvCY1YZRaUDYLDT45pM6NonrDJ2NdKEh640tP-qnfq29-xRIrcbhF8SPSufIH4BA0g8D1AcbTeWI2w_jTCvCw6cmTDvYE4MbABXa_wROSX9GJw8Egc-LU/s400/D1+tuffatore2%255B1%255D.gif" width="296" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">From the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(Sixth Century B.C.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">PHOTOGRAPHS:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Scenes from the Necropolis of Monterozzi at Tarquinia:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">© Lyle Goldberg</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Tarquinian Tomb Paintings: From the Web</span></span></div>Edward Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157925319005249772noreply@blogger.com3