«What do you think if we start from the Uffizi? It is one of the places I really wanted to see in Italy and…»
I finish her sentence: «It may help my search too».
The queue is much longer than the one at the Vaticans yesterday, but we endure it. Chiara is really impressed with Leonardo, Michelangelo and Caravaggio’s paintings: I am only focused on Botticelli. The room where the famous Primavera is kept, if packed with a group of tourists; I line up to hear the explanation of the guide, who is holding up a little Austrian flag. The painting is remarkable, but, of course, no traces of the dear emperor.
The guide explains that Botticelli is also the author of a famous portrait of Julian de’ Medici, brother of the more known Lorenzo the Magnificent. I get closer and, apologising, I ask in Ge
