Monthly Archives: January 2021

“Latemar Dream”

Albumleaf 178: January 16, 2021 (Bologna) The coronavirus situation has confined us to Bologna for months now, and with each passing day I yearn more and more to travel–especially to non-urban areas like the mountains. I have never been to the Latemar range in the Dolomites. But someone posted about them the other day on […]

“Il tintinnio dei monatti”

Albumleaf 177: January 13, 2021 (Bologna) “The Ringing of the Dead-Gatherers” During the plague of 1630, the groups of men who went around collecting the sick and dead in Milan were called “monatti,” and they wore little bells on their ankles to signal their approach. In Manzoni’s The Betrothed, the monatti are often inebriated and […]

“More Domestic Harmony”

Albumleaf 176: January 1, 2021 (Bologna) For context, listen to Domestic Harmony.