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Harry Cochrane is a jobbing man of letters from Northumberland. When he’s not penning his own poetry, Harry is likely reviewing other people’s for the Times Literary Supplement, or commenting on opera as The Florentine’s resident reviewer. With his brother George, he runs Bookstalling, a blog devoted to careful reading.
For writers and poets, finding a place to work in Florence can be harder than you would expect.
Certain shops in Florence are famous for their doggies in the windows. Harry Cochrane meets two of these dogs.
My family have a framed map of Florence in the bathroom. I think my Dad gave it to me a few years ago, and I gratefully gave it back to ...
Lorenzo Zazzeri (born in Florence, in 1994) competed at the Tokyo Olympic Games, winning silver in the 4×100 men’s freestyle swimming relay. He speaks with The Florentine about the Games, ...
As I write this, Tuscany is two days in the bianco, that is, as a white zone. There’s good news for the boys in bianco too, as England have just ...
If ‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them: there is no third’, as T. S. Eliot famously claimed, we might say that Florence is divided between Dante and Michelangelo. ...
As consumers, we have done without restaurants for the best part of a year, save for a few months last summer and a brief burst of freedom in January. We ...
If you live in Florence, you’ll have seen the e-scooters. Not scooters in the motorino sense, the Vespas that we covet one and all; I’m talking about the monopattini that ...
So much ink has been spilled on Florence that compiling a total Florentine library would probably induce a variant on Stendhal syndrome. There are histories of Florence, historical novels set ...
È un bicchiere di vino con un panino, la felicità. Happiness, as we know from Al Bano’s song “Felicità”, is a glass of wine with a sandwich. But the word ...
Pianist Hershey Felder began a recent interview with The Florentine by reminding us—because it’s all too often forgotten—that Florence was the birthplace of the piano. Its inventor was one Bartolomeo Cristoforo, ...
“Eh bien, mon prince, Gênes et Lucques ne sont plus que des apanges, des estates, de la famille Buonaparte.” It’s not so shocking that the very first sentence of War ...
Cellist Antonio Lysy has just completed the 32nd edition of Incontri in Terra di Siena, a chamber music concert festival that he and his mother Benedetta Origo founded back in 1987, ...
Cortona On The Move is not quite what you would expect to find in a gorgeous if geriatric Etruscan hilltown near Arezzo. Archaeological museums, yes, palazzi looking out over the ...
I’m never quite sure which is more depressing: renting a place in Florence or looking for someone to rent one. The same problem afflicts both parties: too many people are ...
“Eh bien, mon prince, Gênes et Lucques ne sont plus que des apanges, des estates, de la famille Buonaparte.” It’s not so shocking that the very first sentence of War ...
Venice has the Rialto, Florence has the Ponte Vecchio. The bridge that famously survived the war is surely the sight most snapped in all the city. Yet perversely, of the ...
The jewellers will start to trade again with shared, sustainable projects
Confined to our homes for the last two months, we have had a lot of time to indulge in entertainment media. Many are the memes bewailing their author’s Netflix dependency, ...
Saturday evening, February 29, I found myself eating in an Oltrarno restaurant, Antico Ristoro di Cambi. The place was packed to the gills, but fish was a rare sight on ...
Except when in the shower, singing is one of those art forms that seems to demand company. With a piano, your fingers can produce ten notes at the same time, ...
For the moment, we settle into a different exile, the one that really matters, and that is our personal severance from all society.
I entered my old home like one entranced. Quaresima was almost ticked away. “What Lenten diet, how much have they renounced?” I wondered, “they’ve even ...
