Thursday, August 26, 2010

Lost Walk

I forgot this walk. It was the Sunday after the White Night and it was reassuring to see in “Piazza XX Settembre” the face of Alfredo Kraus, one of the greatest tenors of the last century. Not sure of his feelings about “Caballeria Rusticana”.I saw this (dry) fountain in a courtyard inside the building called “Palazzi Rossi”, I have never noticed it before...This asinine writer wrote “avvolte” (which is “wrapped”) instead of “a volte”, which is “sometimes”.The building of the “Biblioteca dei Ragazzi”, the Children's Library in the park of “Villa Fabbricotti”.Discovered by Christopher Columbus on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in 1493, pineapples became a rare delicacy in Europe, and were symbolic of power, wealth, and hospitality. The pineapple was adopted as a motif by architects, artisans and craftsmen, being sculpted into gateposts, railings, weather vanes and door lintels. (Pineapples as a decorative motif, Wikipedia).

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