to the blog of his friend Marshall http://ecopolfinanza.blogspot.com/2010/04/livorno-bella.html
Unable to copy-paste, I reprint in full the deletion of a page Mario Tobino , written for the introduction of Big Book of Tuscany - Mondadori - first edition in November 1986.
"Once I fell in love Livorno."
Before the outbreak of the Second World War every now and then I called up, I do not know why, "for updates", I had to introduce the military hospital in Leghorn for a month.
The result was that I was born the love for this city. Livorno already know but to escape. During these calls me I enjoyed. At noon I was already free; hospital little to do, even the shadow of novelty.
Livorno was beautiful first for the spirit of the citizens, the provision for modesty, brotherhood even "vulgar" was not that, it served to hide the shame.
Livorno was different from my beach, Viareggio. had a port, full of iron fortification of Physicians, dams Meloria, the Marzocco, the Vigliaia ; had maritime architecture. I never tire of admiring it in every stone .
I had rented a room near a military hospital, the avenue leading to the train. From there, just after noon, I was leaving and, happily, I came to statue of the Four Moors. There was the street to see ! I smiled in front of the Cisternone , the reservoir of the aqueduct, a kid who fills his cheek, and suddenly there was the large square full of sky, square Voltone, back with back-chattering folk houses. E ' a rectangular square, wide , for fresh sea breeze, full of sound at certain times of the boys. Two white statues stand at opposite poles, good-natured monarchs, Ferdinand III and Leopold II .
Soon after, proceeding, meets the statue of factors, the sidewalk, an ordinary citizen, the crumpled cap on his head, a moment out of the study for a breath of fresh air.
started the "Great Way . O cursed war, how many pictures you have sprayed. It was a road between the most Leghorn, the houses all with the same speech, the same height, color of a pale gray, with green shutters cracked. We floated along with many minute stories and a yearning for life that flows away, you lose far, nothing. The moving of the locals is that they try a great joy to trust, to help, do not believe that poverty is a disgrace and primarily speak without hypocrisy, are not talkative, confess everything that comes to mind their .
I am already - I thought had passed only a few seconds - I am already at notch, to Quattro Mori, the port among the fortresses of Doctors that soon the bombs would have ripped.
front there was a restaurant: "The barrel standing ". I would sit outside, my calls were always military in good seasons. With your fingers could almost pinch the nose to one of four chained Moors or start a conversation with Grand Duke, Ferdinand with a little struts on the slaves.
let my imagination go on his own, the combined vapor ferruginous incited me to the docks, the impressive silhouettes of the Medici fortress adorned with a nice ribbon of marble stimulated me to resurrect old Florentine measures: the free port, the "Constitution Livornina" that allowed many Jews to come together, find a home.
gentle pace minutes, and then I headed to the neighborhoods, the neighborhood of the Medici " Venezia Nuova," where the houses were waiting for me naked, linear, but the grout for sea \u200b\u200bbreezes keep it moist and the colors you had drawn on the salty fantastic figures, masks merry or mournful that moved, I winked, they were about to speak.
Then there was the last of the appeals, one for war, and Livorno goodbye beautiful !..."
Above: Mario Tobino, from Wikipedia, the Quattro Mori monument in Piazza Micheli, Livorno (photos reproduced from the website Grifotour , which is required license to use).
Note Aquaeductus
Tobino speaks of square Voltone, in fact this is the popular name, was called the Grand Square, there are statues of Ferdinand III and Leopold II, then with the unit 's Italy was renamed Piazza Carlo Alberto, now called Republic Square. It 's a bad habit to change his name to the streets and squares, just for political reasons. E 'was born as a square the Grand Dukes and should have kept that name.
The square is about 19,000 square meters and the structure is that of a bridge in time, hence the name Voltone.
Note Aquaeductus
Tobino speaks of square Voltone, in fact this is the popular name, was called the Grand Square, there are statues of Ferdinand III and Leopold II, then with the unit 's Italy was renamed Piazza Carlo Alberto, now called Republic Square. It 's a bad habit to change his name to the streets and squares, just for political reasons. E 'was born as a square the Grand Dukes and should have kept that name.
The square is about 19,000 square meters and the structure is that of a bridge in time, hence the name Voltone.
The following photos are from the blog of VP http://livornodailyphoto.blogspot.com/ 2009/09/piazza-della-repubblica.html
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