Description
LIMITED PRINT EDITION – In the spring of 2020, just before Easter, The Florentine is proud to publish Healing Not Broken, a special 106-page issue documenting the emergency we are all enduring in Florence and all over the world.
In this special edition of The Florentine, we witness an outpouring of a renewed humanism in Florence, of learning, words, thoughts and creativity, with articles, poems and short stories scribed by our international community, some a product of our literary competition launched to keep readers company during quarantine, plus ideas and considerations for the future from Tuscany’s leaders and institutional figures, all interspersed with iconic photography of Florence at its most restful.
Contents include a foreword by Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella; articles by Eugenio Giani, president of the Regional Council of Tuscany; Luigi Salvadori, president of Fondazione CR Firenze; Benjamin V. Wohlauer, Consul General of the United States in Florence; and John Hooper, Italy and Vatican correspondent for The Economist, plus many more.
INDEX OF CONTENTS
- Editor’s letter: Healing not broken / Helen Farrell
- Florence will rise again / Dario Nardella
- The future? / Marco Badiani
- Voices of tomorrow / Giovanni Giusti
- Empty Florence / Francesco Spighi
- How to help Italy + Florence
- The empty ballroom / Perri Klass + Larry Wolff
- A message / Benjamin V. Wohlauer
- No more chances after today / Marisa Garreffa
- The best and the worst / Sarah Crowe
- Retreat into your home, not into yourself / Harry Cochrane
- Opportunity / Alexandra Lawrence
- Family life in lockdown / Jane Farrell
- Il British during lockdown / Amanda Lowe
- The next adventure / Simon Gammell
- A sense of community / Eugenio Giani
- A different world / Luigi Salvadori
- The wisdom of farmers / Paolo Chiappini
- Full city, empty city / Carlo Francini
- Tuscany, together for tomorrow / Francesco Palumbo
- An opportunity to change direction / Carlotta Ferrari
- The meaning of “home” / Kamin Mohammedi
- Neighbourhood spirit in San Niccolò / Lisa Brancatisano
- So, so special / Nardia Plumridge
- Thoughts from just another girl in Florence / Georgette Jupe
- Living in a today which never seems to end / Ela Vasilescu
- The “adopted home” of so many / Gabrielle Maria Taylor
- Florence, that grande dame / Deirdre Pirro
- Lost Verse / Kirsty Jane Falconer
- My One and Only / Aimelie Moen
- Thoughts from young readers / Téa Mijatović, Sofia Lydia Barbieri, Liam Danilo Barbieri + Allegra DiFlorio
- My sweet quarantine / Vincenzo d’Angelo
- Making pasta in lockdown / Emiko Davies
- Radiant, lethal Italian spring / John Hooper
