...oh well, I haven't been ONLY "touristically lazying around"...
the Franciscan Friar you can see in this pic created here in my homecountry a big "cappella choir" and
has been its director for 40 years: I was asked to realize an important HOMMAGE À in the occasion of
this anniversary...I am sorry for the bad quality of the photos, but I stupidly forgot to take as usual
some pics myself, so I had to ask the singers - anyway, it's a Cowley's goat vellum, about 26 x 34 cms,
gilded in gold leaf, where I first wrote the gregorian notation of a GLORIA: from the upper musical line,
a bunch of sparrows fly towards the capital letter, to be directed in their singing by St. Francis himself,
while a novice hidden behind a curtain stares incredulously at the scene...below, some dedication lines
and my signature: here you are the best image I have: