CHAPTER 20
Once back in Jesi, Andrea considered it an absolute priority to go to the municipality to obtain permission to go back to the excavations in Piazza Colocci. During the trip by train a doubt had arisen and he had to go to check it out.
«Dr. Franciolini!», the councillor for Public Works apostrophized him, squaring him from head to toe, pushing his pupils above his reading glasses, in a way that made him look more like a sparrow hawk than a man. «We have already told you that the excavations are closed. Work is about to begin on paving the square, and the administration has no intention of procrastinating beyond the restoration. We risk not finishing even for next summer. If then, as you say, you want to explore an even deeper level, we’ll be banging our horns with the superinte
