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Italy continues to bless me with good things!! Viz: the fact that Perugia's Palazzo dei Priori currently hosts a huge Pinturicchio exhibition! I nearly cried when I saw that, winding my way up into town by bus. Because omg. PINTURICCHIO. He of Appartamenti Borgia fame. Next to Perugino possibly my favourite Renaissance artist. *dies*
So, what am I doing online again!? The hostel opens at 16:00, I've already had coffee somewhere, I scoped out the opening hours of the exhibition (daily until 20:00), as well as of the postal office round the corner to mail home the catalogue (...) and, well, my backpack was getting nkhhhhhgh heavy.
Would you believe that I nearly lost last night's sleep due to memorial-plaque-disappointment, trying to work out a way around sketchy train connections? Seriously. Goes without saying that I... stopped in Senigallia again. I started out super-early to YESSS!!!! take a picture of the damn thing. From all possible angles. As well as going back to the Della Rovere residence that has been put forth as a second possible location. *headdesks* For all my fretting... it went so beautifully that I'm still stunned & happy. Because, well, remember the big signs on Highway 66 all around Northern Arizona? You've come too far not to see it, they say.
And now, ladies and gentlemen... Perugia! Allow me to quote Bradford here,
"By 1489 Cesare's Roman boyhood was over; he was fourteen, and for the next three years he would complete his formal education at the universities of Perugia and Pisa. In the autumn of 1489 he was sent to Perugia to study at the Sapienza... Cesare must have been frequently in company with Gian Paolo Baglioni and his brothers, whose houses in the Baglioni quarter of the town near Porta Marzia were within a stone's throw of the Sapienza building, and he probably went hunting with them on their estates of bastia and Spello in the contado of Perugia."
Let's not forget Perugia is also the site of the Baglioni Blood Wedding of 1500, a most memorable -ahem- event during which one half of the family messily butchered the other.
And on Saturday there's a free concert by Roy Paci & Aretuska in front of Palazzo dei Priori, yay!
People, people. ♥
So, what am I doing online again!? The hostel opens at 16:00, I've already had coffee somewhere, I scoped out the opening hours of the exhibition (daily until 20:00), as well as of the postal office round the corner to mail home the catalogue (...) and, well, my backpack was getting nkhhhhhgh heavy.
Would you believe that I nearly lost last night's sleep due to memorial-plaque-disappointment, trying to work out a way around sketchy train connections? Seriously. Goes without saying that I... stopped in Senigallia again. I started out super-early to YESSS!!!! take a picture of the damn thing. From all possible angles. As well as going back to the Della Rovere residence that has been put forth as a second possible location. *headdesks* For all my fretting... it went so beautifully that I'm still stunned & happy. Because, well, remember the big signs on Highway 66 all around Northern Arizona? You've come too far not to see it, they say.
And now, ladies and gentlemen... Perugia! Allow me to quote Bradford here,
"By 1489 Cesare's Roman boyhood was over; he was fourteen, and for the next three years he would complete his formal education at the universities of Perugia and Pisa. In the autumn of 1489 he was sent to Perugia to study at the Sapienza... Cesare must have been frequently in company with Gian Paolo Baglioni and his brothers, whose houses in the Baglioni quarter of the town near Porta Marzia were within a stone's throw of the Sapienza building, and he probably went hunting with them on their estates of bastia and Spello in the contado of Perugia."
Let's not forget Perugia is also the site of the Baglioni Blood Wedding of 1500, a most memorable -ahem- event during which one half of the family messily butchered the other.
And on Saturday there's a free concert by Roy Paci & Aretuska in front of Palazzo dei Priori, yay!
People, people. ♥