VRBS VERY FAITHFUL
After the heat suffered in Scurcola:
(less and less than the stoically suffered by the fake Angevins draped in brocade) and the damp suffered in Mosciano:
my idea was this:
so, to set aside some cold to take to Rome, but the sky is not exactly promising:
.HEIC)
had led me to more mild advice, inducing me to stop a little further down, in one of:
all dear to me, but perhaps this a little more, for its architectural value:
and for the elegance of its landscapes:
I slept in an old and therefore wise building:
whose windows taught something about time from the outside, and from the inside something about space:
I omit the details on the evening, which are of no interest here. In the morning a flight of birds greeted Monte Corno (that's what they called it from there):
and from the landing window I framed the "twin mountains", that of Campli , on the left, and that of flowers , on the right, where I haven't been yet (but sooner or later I'll go):
Reluctantly I left behind the "urbs fidelissima":
to go to another place:
where everyone was happy because their money was returned to them on condition that they agreed to be told by someone how to spend it, but there were also those who complained that in returning this money that someone – whom we do not name, because we are in a democratic country, not in a regime! – imposed rules for their spending so absurd as to make it almost impossible (and the demand flowed spontaneously, like the water from those mountain springs that someone else wants to subtract from the autonomous management of the municipalities : but then it would not be so much better to keep them and spend them how do we think? Are we sure that we would be more wrong than relying on the geniuses who imposed on us austerity first and then the green ? …).
Questions that a modest senator of the territory cannot answer, but perhaps you do …
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2022/07/vrbs-fidelissima.html on Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:51:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.