[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #789

[Will Owen <nashwill912@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Koleszar said:

"It's unlikely they'll find any old body shells unused as Portello's been
demolished. The Italians sometimes seem to be a bit crap about
preserving some of their history."

Probably because they have so damn much of it lying around. Go to just
about any little hill-town in the South and you'll see modern
glass-and-aluminum store fronts cut into the foundations of the local
11th c. castle, or similar examples of "adaptive re-use." On a big
public square a few blocks from the Duomo, in Florence, there's a kind
of grubby stuccoed stone tenement house with a little street-front bar
in the ground floor, and a plaque about twenty feet up in the front wall
identifying the house as Benvenuto Cellini's birthplace, ca. 1500.

So I guess it's kinda hard to get them all worked up over anything that
happened more or less last week, relatively speaking...

Will Owen
who is getting fairly historical himself...
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