Unele capitole deşi statice în acţiune, sunt foarte descriptive, de asta le voi ciuguli de informaţia pe care o vom folosi atunci cînd acţiunea ne va purta în faţa obiectelor descrise. Voi întitula astfel de postări - apendice. Am ajuns la un fragment care reaminteşte cît de frumoasă e Florenţa:
"This was the city on whose streets Michelangelo played as a child, and in whose studios Italian Renaissance ignited. This was Florence, whose galleries lured millions of travelers to admire Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Leonardo's Annunciation, and the city's pride and joy - Il Davide.[...] Michelangelo had employed the classical tradition of contrapposto to create the illusion that David was leaning to his right, his left leg bearing almost no weight, when in fact, his left leg was supporting tons of marbles."
Un obiect de artă foarte important în această operă e o mască..Plague Mask:
[...] the unique shape of the long-beaked mask was nearly synonymous with the Black Death - the deadly plague that swept through Europe in the 1300s, killing of a third of the population in some regions. Most believed the "Black" in Black Death was a reference to the darkening of the victims' flesh through gangrene and subepidermal hemorrhages, but in fact the word black was a reference to the profound emotional dread that the pandemic spread through the population.
"The long-beaked mask", Langdon said, "was worn by medieval doctors to keep the pestilence far from their nostrils while treating the infected. Nowadays, you only see them worn as costumes during Venice Carnevale - an eerie reminder of a grim period in Italy's history."
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