It was great to have you in class, and to hear about your work, Lari! Stay in touch.

STOP THAT 🤣

Medieval Rome: The two best to start with are Richard Krautheimer’s “Portrait of a City” (2nd ed) and Hendrik Dey’s recent “New Portrait”. But I’ll also plug James Palmer’s Virtues of Economy and his translation of the Anonimo Romano chronicle. 🙂

I have had everything from $0 to $80 quotes for a single image reproduction in a small-run scholarly publication. The $80 was the Marciana.

From the trenches: Italian law is supposedly nationally consistent on these policies, and all state institutions are subject to it. In reality, each institution makes its own calls, e.g. on what constitutes a "scientific publication."

In my experience this creates a L hand/R hand problem where the library decides what you pay (depending on use) but they don't tell *you*, they only tell the processor, and if you dispute the amount the processor tells you to take it up with the library, which refuses to answer further emails.

Marciana: There is a fee, there are forms, and there is a 3rd-party payment processor that you pay the fee to.

I handled this book in the Schoenbergs' flat here in SRQ once! It's really gorgeous. 🤩

Yesterday my 9yo gave Albuquerque a beautifully precise Romance lilt ("Al-boo-kwair-kway") and I had to admit to her that Americans call it "Alba-kerky".

Starting point, this time, was “No way this guy is Cardinal Pizza Can Dance.”

Detail:
(Painting, btw, is in the Maritime Museum in Genoa, which is amazing.)

Lest anyone think that life in the Middle Ages was provincial, isolated, and rural... (Medieval Mediterranean port cities like this often had pop. densities ca. 100K/sqmi, which is more than Manhattan or Mumbai today [60-75K].) —Cristoforo de' Grassi, 1597 copy of Genoa in 1481.

Thank you, Seb! 🫶 Toujours Equipe France!

Yes! Like a broccoli haircut for camels. 😁