69 Via Guelfa
69 Via GuelfaFlorence, Italy
Florence, Italy
“You sure you’re not married?” I say, rolling over onto my left side on the bed, facing the open French windows of the bedroom, the night air cool and clean on our n***d skin, the light of the brilliant moon bathing us like it must have bathed the Renaissance masters of the past. Caravaggio, Michelangelo … da Vinci. If we crane our necks just so, we can spot the golden cupula that rests on top of the Duomo (the dome Brunelleschi built nearly six hundred years ago) less than a half-mile away in the center of the city.
From the cobbled streets below comes the noise of young revelers as they return from the bars and retire to their hostels. Across the street, a humble family which consists of a young man, equall
