Category: Seeing

Clean under eaves, the obsession receives with regards. The city lives in detail, as others of the country do; impressed and touched, everything in sight seems laborious. Vibrant and arranged, the street in vivid colors diffuses tasty steam; wearing crabs, octopuses and fishes, the wall walks with people to open their appetite. Dense and crowded, the road of flags disturbs the bitter green tea; covered with unpolished catchwords and extravagant calligraphy, the specter haunts people to feed anxiety. The cloud has passed and merged into the elevated landscape; the sun is pitiless; a beer is profitless.

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BORN IN VINCI OF FLORENCE ON APRIL 15, 1452,
SPENT THE LAST THREE YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN AMBOISE,
AT THE MANOR OF CLOS LUCÉ
FOR THE INVITATION OF KING FRANCIS FIRST

HE DIED THERE ON MAY 2, 1519
AND WAS BURIED IN THE CASTLE BY HIS REQUEST,
AT THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST. FLORENTIN
WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN 1807

HIS ASSUMED REMAINS
FOUND DURING THE EXCAVATIONS OF 1863
WERE TRANSFERRED TO THIS CHAPEL

Engraved on the wall of the chapel where Leonardo da Vinci lies (translation in English ©J-W.HWANG)

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The sky falls under the yellow cloud that builds the loud towers among which the rain pole walks. Gloomy weather floods into the river; turbid water climbs to the air; the tranquilized battleship anchored in the roofless museum. Behold! The marbles collapse against the patience for the inhabitants, the pleasure for the tourists, the reputation for the scholars, and the longevity for the politicians. Footless people rush through the wet caves to paint their tied red tongues in careless black within a three-story cake house; arrogance bats, hypocrisy throws, animosity kicks, rectitude runs, peace minds.

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Landless merchants on mighty fleets, once the Venetians were ambitious and vicious; with four horses from Greece, with a winged lion displacing a speared dragon, with a tetrarch leaving a foot at the end of the West, the great cave prospered over trunks rooted in the clay. The Pillars of Hercules declared a gate to the sealed ocean; Venice proclaimed a node in between two worlds. The blind conqueror built a bank of warfare with the precious gallery and destroyed the firm empire with an arrogant republic; alas, the boughs dropped and the merchants grounded.

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