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Then the eureka moment. My thumb clamped down on the mysterious lever, I push off from the curb and the scooter seizes on this ounce of momentum. It whirrs into life. I zip to the crossroads and I turn left: now I’m bearing down on Porta al Prato. I try to hug the curb without pranging myself on the parked cars, but most of the overtaking drivers give me a generous berth. It can really go some, this thing: the speedo touches 25 kmph. Thank God the brakes are good. But when I veer left onto viale Belfiore, it’s because I’m getting a new ride, as they say in the heist movies. Before I set off, the app had alerted me to a little squadron of BiC scooters parked right here, positively bursting with juice.
an ingenious timelapse of never-ending passersby, like the trudging circles in the
Inferno, in front of the nineteenth-century Carrara marble tribute by Paolo Emilio Demi. The half-hour of camera clicking has attracted the attention of the young army officers standing guard over the U-shaped corridor and its priceless possessions. “I wonder why Alighieri is spelled with two ‘l’s,” the soldier muses. “Maybe it’s a mistranslation from the Latin.” Any ideas?
This issue of
The Florentine celebrates Florence’s Supreme Poet ahead of Dantedì on March 25, the date when Dante is believed to have started writing his ‘Divine Comedy’ and the date that the Italian government has dedicated to the writer as a symbol of Italian culture worldwide. For Eugenio Giani, president of the Tuscany Region, Dante is the “cultural father of all of Tuscany” as well as a “friend… a familiar presence even to those who haven’t studied literature”, while for Mayor of
It was a sweltering day when Justin Randolph Thompson and I sat down outdoors for coffee and a renewed commitment.
The Florentine has always given space to
Black History Month Florence as the cultural initiative has evolved since its foundation in 2016, but in 2021 we feel compelled to dive deeper and broaden an awareness of Black culture in Florence. In addition to a regular column, this month’s issue contains an extended special edited by BHMF, which will be accompanied by online chats on our Facebook pages and YouTube channels. It’s our hope that the Italian media will follow suit to amplify under-acknowledged voices throughout the country. Contents include a thought-provoking review of the
The Ponte Vecchio is home to no fewer than 48 jewellers, all squeezed into the tiniest of compartments. If these buildings seem bigger on the inside, it is because they jut over the water, secured by wooden struts that somehow held fast through the Biblical flood of 1966. But walk across the bridge now, on May 27, for the record, and you will see the barest handful of open doors among a locked majority. The Italian language has a range of sensuous vocabulary for rolling shutters
serranda
, saracinesca, persiana all of which capture the storied elegance of the storefronts. But as long as these shutters stay down, no jewellery is sold and no income comes in.