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...fight goes may have grave repercussions later on for Carter and his programs: the memories of Senators and Congressmen run long, and they can nurse their grudges as bitterly as the Medici. With the possible exception of motherhood, there is nothing more sacred to many members of Congress than the physical evidences of the power that Carter is trying to limit: gigantic dams, huge reservoirs, aqueducts that run for hundreds of miles, all proof-cast in concrete-of the legislators' concern for the folks back home. What is more, there is no sure way of measuring the true value...
...other hand, Monday looks good for lectures and so on, if you're interested in Medici tombs or Micronesia. If not, stop reading...
Moreover, there is the problem that Jefferson had actually seen few of the major works in the show. There on view is the Uffizi's Medici Venus, because Jefferson longed to install a copy of her at Monticello. Not having been to Florence, he had never seen the original, which he knew through engravings and plasters. It is pleasant to see the Towneley Vase, that once renowned Attic mar ble of the 1st century A.D. on which Keats based several lines of Ode to a Grecian Urn. But Jefferson never saw it, and (as the catalogue admits) would probably...
Cutthroat Foiled. But what were the drawings doing in that narrow chamber? Dal Poggetto has a theory. In 1527 the Medici, who had virtually become kings, were expelled from Florence by a wave of republican sentiment. When the Medici resumed their grip on the city in 1530, a purge of republicans followed, and a cutthroat named Alessandro Corsini was hired to murder Michelangelo-who had vocally sided with the republican cause. According to an old tradition, the great sculptor, who was then at work on the Medici tombs, hid in the bell tower of a church on the other side...
Only one problem now remains for Dal Poggetto. Since the general public cannot be let into the storeroom containing the drawings (the space is too confined, the risk of damage too large), he will have to find yet another exit-corridor from the Medici tombs. And for the moment, there seems to be none...