Thursday, June 19, 2025

Verona Day 6

There's a big cemetery/columbarium near me, and as I'm museumed out, I'm just exploring the city. Off I went in that direction.


A typical family interment indoors 
bunch of burials
no writing if the sort in older US cemeteries for the most part. (With the angels, or that sort of thing). Surname first. Name. Date. 98% of burials are well tended.

Nuns' burials. Birth name, Suor (nun name), and Madre (mother superior name). Oldest nun I noticed was 103 years. Which is what physical work, plain food, and an absence of men can get you.
Pricey monuments like this in loggia, or collonades. You're impressed until you look up the person and no newspaper confirms any of the claims, and you realize this guy probably called himself all these complementary things! I looked up several people, had AI try it too, and no claim could be verified. (A warning to genealogical researchers who believe obituaries). 
text: musician and incomparable conductor. Profound philosopher. A spirit mild and incorruptible. (Irony overload!! 😂) Newspaper references, zero. 

Walked through part of the university to get there and back. Profs dress better than I ever did. It's a new university. Bologna's goes back to 1088.


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