well, thank you very much for that warm stirring welcome. i really appreciated. and beth and timothy, and all of my friends in philadelphia, it s a wonderful opportunity to be back in philadelphia, at the philadelphia museum of art, one of our nation s great, great museum treasures to how fortunate for you all to be members of this fine, fine place. saving italy is a magnificent story, one i m really excited to share with you. and it all began for me in 1997. i had moved to florence with my family and i was walking across a bridge one day, the only bridge in florence not destroyed by the nazis as they fled florence in august 1944. and standing on the bridge i wonder how was it in the most destructive conflict in history, some 65 million lives lost, that some of the great works of arts and cultural treasures survive, and he would enable the saving? that has led me now into this remarkable journey, now some 15 years, 16 years later, 10 years of my life full-time, and trying