Saturday, June 15, 2024

Amber and the Moonstone

Set your alarm clock if you’d like to take a Sunday stroll through Poggio a Caiano, province of Prato, Tuscany, Italy, and do not miss the chance to have a look at Mado Fynn’s stall in the street art market in Piazza Risorgimento on Sunday, June 16, 2024, from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M.

As Ambra flees Ombrone, Lorenzo de’ Medici says in his poem Ambra, stanza 41, her limbs changed (“mutar le membra”) and, as she turned to stone, she appeared as a “sketched figure unfinished in hard stone” (“come suol figura / bozzata e non finita in pietra dura”). Photo: Comune di Poggio a Caiano.

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