{"id":13280,"date":"2023-08-08T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:23:25","slug":"florence-a-delicate-case-david-leavitt-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/florence-a-delicate-case-david-leavitt-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence, A Delicate Case &#8211; David Leavitt (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story flows through the present and past. First, a recounting of the wealthy English that chose to take refuge in Florence in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, some of them running away from the Labouchere Amendment, a law put in place to prosecute homosexuals easily. Florence stayed a refuge for expatriates until World War II, with the English recreating England in Italy. A chapter on the moving of the statue of David and one on the fate of the bridges over the Arno during the same war. Interesting facts, all very well documented. A reading that opens on others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;One of the girls, whose parents had a house in Chianti, complained that when she tried to speak Italian to &#8220;the peasants&#8221;, she could not understand their replies &#8220;because they haven&#8217;t got any teeth&#8221;. What she might actually have been hearing was the famous aspirated &#8216;C&#8217; of Florence, which turns the word casa (house), for example, into &#8220;has&#8221;. A drollery in the rest of Italy is to go up to a Florentine in a bar and ask him to order &#8220;a Coca-Cola with a short straw&#8221;. (Una Hoha-Hola hon un hannuccia horta.)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story flows through the present and past. First, a recounting of the wealthy English that chose to take refuge in Florence in the late 19th century, some of them running away from the Labouchere Amendment, a law put in place to prosecute homosexuals easily. Florence stayed a refuge for expatriates until World War II, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[214],"tags":[118,128,112],"class_list":["post-13280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2023","tag-beauty","tag-entitlement","tag-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/nicola-pavan-TWqEt_jwW2s-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13476,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions\/13476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}