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Books on Flowers

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The Sun Gallery 朱雀 Vermillion Phoenix

Spring

 

My essay: Tokyo Blossoms

Flower Art: Makoto Azuma Hardcover 

Flora Magnifica: The Art of Flowers in Four Seasons
by Makoto Azuma

On Flowers: Lessons from an Accidental Florist
by Amy Merrick

Her artistic vision is mainly like 茶花 chabana flower arrangement favored in tea ceremony... arrangements that look like the flowers as they are found in the field. She has her luxury high impact roses and Yves Saint Laurent carnations... but her heart seems rooted in the gardens at Sissinghurst and in Ikebana. High impact wow flowers and humble meadow and wild flowers all find a place in the book. An English garden and a tea room in Japan... her book is gorgeous, charming and kind-hearted.

I loved her chapter on "foraging".... like "maple leaf hunting" and mushroom hunting in Japan, there are flowers you appreciate from a distance and there are leaves and branches you gather and bring home... I purchased a tiny pair of Japanese scissors to keep in my walking bag for foraging (My neighbors should love that!) Really, in LA, everything now is private property... it is so sad. I press flowers regularly and always have fresh flowers at home.. but I think it is time really to learn how to garden. Wonderful book!

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Winter 

Last Year, I began revisiting Japanese flower arrangements and foraging. This year, I started a class at the London Floral School called DUTCH MASTERS FLORAL COURSE. I also took a class at the Huntington gardens. I am reading Flower Hunters by Lucy Hunter (review--not by me-- here) I also realized Lauren Groff, whose award-winning novel Matrix I read this year, wrote a short story called Flower Hunters (New Yorker)


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Walk on the Wild Side: Foraging and Fermentation

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Foraging

Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes
by Winifred Bird

Gina Rae La Cerva’s Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food

John Cage’s A Mycological Foray: Variations on Mushrooms

On Flowers: Lessons from an Accidental Florist
by Amy Merrick

Honest Magazine: The Gather Issue

Fly-Fishing, by Mark Kurlansky

Birds Art Life, by Kyo Maclear

The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

Water, Wood and Wild Things (Wonderful, still reading)

Forage, Harvest, Feast: 40 Plants, 500 Recipes, a Wild-Inspired Cuisine
by Marie Viljoen

Fruit hunters, by Adam Leith Gollner

 

Rewilding

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

by George Monbiot

 

Seaweed

Seaweed: An Enchanting Miscellany
by Miek Zwamborn (wonderful review here)

Josie Iselin’s The Curious World of Seaweed

Seaweed Chronicle, by Susan Shetterly (still reading)

 

New Science

Hidden Spring, by Mark Solms

Metazoa, by Peter Godfrey-Smith

 

Bay Area Thinkers:

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene 3rd ed. Edition

Both by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan

Other New Movement Philosophers

Dark Mountain Movement

Hyperobjects, by Timothy Morton

Also by Morton: Dark Ecology for a Logic of Future Coexistence

and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays by Paul Kingsnorth

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Fermentation

[First published in Dublin Review of Books]

Fermentation as Metaphor, by Sandor Ellix Katz

Sandor Ellix Katz:

Fermentation as Metaphor & The Art of Fermentation

The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements

And

Koji Alchemy

Interview with author Rich Shih in Serious Eats

Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation
by Rene Redzepi, David Zilber

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Documentary Film: Soil! The Movie

Fantastic Fungi

Film: Salt of the Earth

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Way of the Octopus and Talking to Animals

 

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My essays:

An Inter-Species Crowd: How To Talk To Animals And Space Aliens

Do Octopuses Have Souls?

 

Bay Area Thinkers:

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene 3rd ed. Edition

Both by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan

 

Other New Movement Philosophers

Dark Mountain Movement

Hyperobjects, by Timothy Morton

Also by Morton: Dark Ecology for a Logic of Future Coexistence

and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays by Paul Kingsnorth

 

Inter-Species Crowd

When Animals Speak by Eva Meijir

Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway

Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
by Christof Koch

Apocalypse

Leaning to Die in the Anthropocene

By Roy Scranton

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
by Mark O'Connell

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times
by Pablo Servigne, Raphael Stevens

Southern Reach Trilogy: 

Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy
By David Tompkins

Human Contamination: The Infectious Border Crossings of Jeff VanderMeer’s Area X
By Sophia Booth Magnone

Bill Benson's fantastic essay at 3QD

Terror and Terroir: Porous Bodies and Environmental
Dangers
Brian Onishi

The New Yorker:

The Weird Thoreau, By Joshua Rothman

The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction, in the Atlantic

Southern Reach Training: Fungus Safety (Protocol 3984SRT)

 

Space Aliens

Extraterrestrial Languages
by Daniel Oberhaus

Flying chariots and exotic birds: how 17th century dreamers planned to reach the moon

Other Notes

My 3QD Post: The Great Derangement

Searching for ExoPlanets with Christopher Columbus

The Great Derangement: Fiction and Climate

Sabbath Movement Notes

 

Way of the Octopus

Mark Solms' “The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness”

Peter Godfrey Smith’s new book, Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind, h

Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery's Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Christof Koch's Consciousness: Conversations of a Romantic Reductionist

Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid? & I Am A Strange Loop

Peter Wohllenben's The Hidden Life of Trees

Deborah Gordon's Ants at Work

Lierre Keith's The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Union of Concerned Scientist's Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's Mushroom at the End of the World

Timothy Morten's Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology

Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Michael Pollen's How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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Also recommend Sean Carroll's podcast with David Chalmers (who is working on a new book on the subject) on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

And Paul Stamets (who has a new book coming out called Fantastic Fungi) video Fantastic Fungi

New Atlantis/Understanding Heidegger on Technology

New Atlantis: Do Elephants Have Souls?

Documentary Film: Soil! The Movie

Film: Salt of the Earth

 

 

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Thomas Bernhard and Vienna

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Thomas Bernhard and the City of Dreams

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Thomas Bernhard came into my life as I was walking across the grounds of a mental hospital in August. Located on top of a wooded hill (Ah, the Vienna Woods!), the Kirche am Steinhof is part of what is a sprawling psychiatric hospital--one of the largest in Europe. Completed in 1907, it is also the location of what is considered one of the most important Art Nouveau churches in the world. And it was here that a dear friend of mine went on a first date with a man with whom she fell madly in love many years ago. I thought it was an awfully unusual spot for a first date. But my friend assured me: it had been perfect--and more, that they were still going strong even now, decades later. I had never been on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital before. The guard inquired if we wanted to see the church: Kirche? We nodded, and he pointed up the hill. There were maybe a dozen old buildings, each set within its own grove of trees, dotting the extensive grounds. The church was visible through the shade trees lining the gravel path up the hill. It's golden dome--recently renovated-- was gleaming in the brilliant sunlight, and I could easily understand why the locals called it: limoniberg (the lemon hill). A cheerful place --but then later I found out it also had a terrible history. This happened during the Nazi years, when Steinhof Hospital became the staging point for the death camps. A heartbreaking history of hospital beds emptied of children and adults deemed "untreatable" because of their ethnicity or for any so-called anti-social tendencies; this was where the now disgraced Dr. Hans Asperger did some of his dirty work. I had no idea about this dark history as I walked along the tree-lined path that sunny August day. All I was thinking was what a perfect setting for a novel the place would make. And sure enough, I would later learn, it had been just that; for this picturesque and strange place was the backdrop for my favorite novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982), is set over several months in 1967, when the hospital was comprised of two units: the pulmonary disease clinic and the sprawling psychiatric institution. 

Wittgenstein's Nephew bowled me over completely--and it led to several other novels by Bernhard: Old Masters, Old Masters Graphic Novel, Wittgenstein's Nephew, Yes, Correction, and Goethe Dies. It also led to Gita Honngeger incredible biography: Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian. This then led to a fantastic biography of the Wittgensteins by Evelyn Waugh's grandson, called the House of Wittgenstein; as well as Kandel's Age of Insight and Carl Schorske's classic, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna.

For me, the best part about this narrative journey was being able to be reacquainted to the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. I had briefly studied Wittgenstein as part of my undergraduate degree in philosophy but I confess I had mainly forgotten him. So, the narrative totem pole ended with several books on Wittgenstein's philosophy, as well as philosophical connections to Heidegger. I am still finishing this tower up and need to catch up on my reviews! I also have a long post on Bernhard and Vienna. 

 

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The Tower of el Quixote

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The Tower of Don Quixote and Spanish history

A Novel to Cross a Desert With

The first tower was built in spring 2017.

It was a narrative totem pole that followed my journey in the footsteps of Don Quixote. What a wonderful thing to reach middle age and know there are countless classics left to read and enjoy. The great el Quixote became the sun around which everything else revolved-- el Escorial and Philip II; Charles V and the two Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand (and in the same breath as the two of them: the Spanish Inquisition and this poignant cookbook, A Drizzle of Honey). There was also Isabella's two sister queens...

Battles were Lepanto (Great reads: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World (Roger Crowley) and The Battle of Lepanto (Nanami Shiono) and the Ottoman Siege (post coming). Enemy at the Gate and the Vienna Wood.

My favorite book about Cervantes was by María Antonia Garcés. Evoking Freud, Garcés explores the way trauma can be bypassed in the mind; not experienced directly and instead registered in the psyche as a kind of memory of the event that patients or survivors return to again and again, neurotically trying to process what happened to them. Of course, many people have traditionally processed traumatic events by revisiting them in art -- and Cervantes indeed seems to return again and again to issues of captivity and broken narratives. For what is trauma but a deep interruption? Falling through the cracks of one's own life is how I used to put it until I read María Antonia Garcés' book. For trauma is an interruption of life, like a broken thread (el roto hilo de mi historia). And Cervantes himself uses the language of tying up the broken thread in his telling tales. As a former captive of Columbian guerrillas, María Antonia Garcés is very compelling. I love her! I love Spain! I love Spanish! I love el Quixote. Very good news to find a new something to fall in love with. 

The Quixote also brought Spanish food and Spanish art into my life. 

Art was Bosch. I am still writing about that, but one book that stood out wonderfully was Cees Nooteboom's A Dark Premonition: Journeys to Hieronymus Bosch 

This is a book I wish I could have written ~~ To see a masterpiece at 21 and then go back and see it again at 82. How has the painting changed? How has the viewer changed? Is it even the same man? Can we moderns access the picture in the way Philip II did? Have our eyes changed so much?

Art was also Velasquez. Thoughts put in this post: Being Alone With Las Meninas (Forgetting Michel Foucault)

Finally, from Ilan Stavans's book on the Quixote, this on Quijotismo

In its full splendor, El Quijote not only has given birth to an adjective but also has become a doctrine, an ideology dictating the way people ought to live their lives. What exceptionalism and the American Dream are to the United States (more about that later), this ideology—Quijotismo—is to Spain and its former colonies across the Atlantic. Its central tenet is the implicit concept of rebellion: paraphrasing Montaigne, to sacrifice one's life for a dream is to know the truth. -- Ilan Stavans 

**Here is my Don Quixote Diary which includes stories from my class at Caltech with Nico.**

 

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The Totem Poles

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Susan Orlean, in her latest bestseller, The Library Book, describes her fond memory of the piles and piles of library books of her childhood; those stacks of checked-out books forming totem poles of the narratives she had visited. I was quite taken by this description, as I too loved those towers of stacked books from my childhood.

Books mainly kept in the The Black Tower 玄武

2018

The Tower of el Quixote

The Tower of Thomas Bernhard 

"The Way" of the Octopus and Talking to Animals (Kept in Sun Gallery 朱雀) 

Books on Foraging (Kept in Sun Gallery 朱雀) 

Venice

 

2020

The Tower of Venice

The Tower of Borneo

2021

THE PHILOSOPHIES OF HOSPITALITIES: LEVINAS, DERRIDA & CIXOUS

Books on Flowers (Kept in Sun Gallery 朱雀) 

 

 

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MINI-SYLLABUS: THE PHILOSOPHIES OF HOSPITALITIES: LEVINAS, DERRIDA & CIXOUS

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Waiting For The Messiah: Derrida And The Philosophy Of Hospitality (2/1/2021 at 3 Quarks Daily)

It is as though hospitality were the impossible: as though the law of hospitality defined this very impossibility, as if it were only possible to transgress it, as though the law of absolute, unconditional, hyperbolical hospitality, as though the categorical imperative of hospitality commanded that we transgress all the laws (in the plural) of hospitality, namely, the conditions, the norms, the rights and the duties that are imposed on hosts and hostesses, on the men or women who give a welcome as well as the men or women who receive it. And vice versa, it is as though the laws (plural) of hospitality, in marking limits, powers, rights, and duties, consisted in challenging and transgressing the law of hospitality, the one that would command that the “new arrival” be offered an unconditional welcome--Derrida

Course Description

Hospitality is a notion that most people are familiar with. An everyday word for an everyday experience. Why, then, has it become a burning topic in philosophical and political debate in recent decades? Judith Still in her book Derrida and Hospitality suggests reasons for this could include debate surrounding immigration into Europe and elsewhere. It is also loosely connected to issues of colonialism and post-colonialism. And finally, she suggests, there is its co-opting by consumer culture brands and the service industry.

This course is designed to consider the philosophies of hospitality in the work of Derrida, Levinas, and Cixous: French philosophers knew a thing or two about being an outsider. Each hailed from counties outside of France—from North African lands, and in the case of Levinas, Lithuania. In order to understand underlying notions, we will try and understand how these three philosophers themselves navigated issues of inside and outside, native and Other. In addition, as all three thinkers have Jewish backgrounds, we will try and uncover ways hospitality found in the Torah informed their thinking.

As a class, each week we will sit down to a shared meal together. Student grades will be based entirely on the creation and implementation of a shared meal. That’s right, you will be hosting a shared meal at which fellow students will act as guests. During the meal, the host for that week will bring up challenges they faced in the creation of their meal. In the Sikh langur, for example, vegetarian food is prepared. Vegetarianism in the Sikh religion is not mandatory, but vegetarian food is prepared in the communal kitchens to ensure the greatest number of people can partake. Priya Basil in her book, Be My Guest, has written how difficult it was for her to stop serving meat. Not that she likes meat as she is a vegetarian herself. But so ingrained was the notion of “giving the best’ to guests that she worried that she would appear mean or stingy. Students must keep in mind that in many traditional cultures, hospitality is considered a moral virtue and the best foods and beverages are reserved for guests. There are even times when people are willing to go into debt in order to show hospitality.

During the shared meal, student hosts will lead a conversation about their own personal histories of being hosts and guests; their perceived status as insider or outsider; they experience of storytelling, family recipes and shared meals. These conversations should be clearly informed by the class readings, and any other optional reading that students’ engaged with; such that, by the end of the class, we will have compiled a set of case studies.

We will watch the film Babette’s Feast in our last meeting. If time, we will also watch Michael Pollen’s documentary Cooked.

Discuss: The time spent with family and friends around the table is more precious than anything in the world. It does somehow seem sacred or at least what life is and should be about. For as Michael Pollan says in his film, Cooked, “This is more important than people realize.”

Topics to consider:

  • What is the role of meals vis-à-vis today’s prevalence of identity creation based on consumer choice and other preferences is not coming at the cost of communal cohesion. This is to discuss what are the obligations of being a guest.
  • Compare and contrast the host-guest relationship within the home and between people versus that between nation-states and cultures
  • What do we owe refugees? Discuss in terms of Derrida’s Parasite/Guest
  • Discuss examples from around the world, ie: The Sikh Langar—where all are welcome to partake in the communal meals and serve in the temple kitchens; Germany’s “We can do this” campaign; storytelling between Palestinian and Israeli youths
  • How is “hospitality” related to traditional/religious notions of sacrifice, gift-economies, Heidegger’s notion of “care,” Girard’s “Scapegoat,” and virtue ethics in general?

Main Pedagogies: Embodied Ethics, Deconstructionist, Process

BOOKS

  • Priya Basil’s Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity
  • Judith Still, Derrida and Hospitality
  • Andrew Shepherd’s The Gift of the Other: Levinas, Derrida, and a Theology of Hospitality
  • Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle
  • Word to Life: A Dialogue between Jacques Derrida and Helene Cixous
  • Girard’s Scapegoat
  • Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) 
    by John D. Caputo

OTHER RESOURCES

  • Eat up you'll be happier
  • Chef's Table with Massimo Battura (Trailer)
  • com with Chef Battura
  • Michael Pollan's Cooked
  • Babette’s Feast

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Venice Books

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My Venice Essays:

My Miracle in Venice (Ekstatis Magazine)

Titian: A Painter Crawling Toward God (Hedgehog Review)

Venice: A Drowning City (Dillydoun Journal)

 

We traveled to Venice in 2019 to see Titian's Transfiguration. But --sad to say--it was under conservation, so all we saw was a huge reproduction in the Frari 泣泣泣泣泣.

Despite this major calamity, the trip still became a Titian pilgrimage, as we were staying in the quarter where Titian lived and found ourselves breaking down in tears in front of his last painting in the Academia. That work, the Pieta, made a great impression on us both--in great part because of a fabulous book we read by Mark Hudson, called Titian's Last Days. It was my favorite non-fiction of the year. I wrote about my experience here at the Hedgehog Review. Other wonderful reads on Titian were : Titian: His Life, by Sheila Hale; The Titian Committee, by Iain Pears; Titian: Lady in White, by Andreas Henning (Norton Simon Museum Exhibition Catalog)

One essay I wrote on Bellini, called My Miracle In Venice, was published in a gorgeous Canadian magazine called, Ekstasis.  Books included, The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 by Kiril Petkov and Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance by Holly S. Hurlburt. My notes are here. 

Also on Carpaccio: Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation, by Jan Morris [Re-read twice and it's still out to read again!}; Carpaccio: Major Pictorial Cycles, by Stefania Mason

My reading so far:

  • Venice Ecology:  If Venice Dies, by Salvatore Settis; The Science of Saving Venice, by Caroline Fletcher; Also fascinating: Venice: Extraordinary Maintenance, by Gianfranco Pertot 
  • Venice the beautiful: Venice Is a Fish: A Sensual Guide, by Tiziano Scarpa (and Dream of Venice in Black and White)
  • Jewish history:  Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice, by Erica Jong [worst book of 2019]; A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice, by Harry Berger Jr.;Venice and Its Jews: 500 Years Since the Founding of the Ghetto, by Lenore Rosenberg
  • Venice the amazing:  The Horses of St Mark's: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris and Venice, by Charles Freeman [FANTASTIC!!! GOING TO RE-READ];  The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt (runner up for best in non-fiction!) 
  • Venice Cooking: Fantastic Cookbook:Venice: Four Seasons of Home Cooking, by Russell Norman. Also FUN: Brunetti's Cookbook, by Roberta Pianaro, Donna Leon.

And not to neglect the classics below: Ruskin's Stone's of Venice, Norwich's A History of Venice, and Jan Morris' famous The Venetian Empire. Also Crowley's City of Fortune, which I am unable to locate despite having bought two copies. Also beautiful: Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited, by Sarah Quill.

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The Frari with the reproduction hanging in the painting's place in the altar

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Below: Vendetta should not be in that pile since that book is about Urbino. 
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