LA CASA DEI TESSUTI
ROMANO ROMOLI
And so I asked him for a display for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 200th Birthday. He and I worked together this evening, then I walked out to see the Duomo and Giotto's Campanile looming above me, and just then the great Duomo bell sounded, as she described it in Aurora Leigh VIII.45, 'ten fathoms down', echoing and deepening Shakespeare's 'Full fathom five, Thy father lies'.
The loom is from Siena, from the 1500s, and used for weaving silk
and gold. In the glass case beside it, if you look carefully
enough, you will see a copy of my book, Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto
Latino and Dante Alighieri. Romano Romoli's family
have had this shop for decades on Via dei Pecori, just down from
the Duomo, Giotto's Campanile and the Baptistery, opposite from
the Piazza della Repubblica. Dottor Romoli is a poet and a
scholar, deeply interested in ancient languages, especially in the
Etruscans. He will love to have you visit - and buy his material.
This is where you must come to hear the true Florentine spoken,
where the cs before a, o and u are hard hs. Then
you can become Florentine.
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