![]() ![]() ![]() The Piazza looks a little more lived-in, and a whole lot creepier, in Ridley Scott’s Hannibal.īack in England, ‘Windy Corner’, the home of the Honeychurch family in ‘Summerstreet’, is a private home (that of film critic John Pym), Foxwold, Pipers Lane, Brasted Chart south of Brasted west of Sevenoaks in west Kent – not visible from the road. Judged to be somewhat less successful than its neighbours, it’s now known as Il Biancone – roughly, the Big White Lump. The huge fountain, in which the crowd tries to revive the knife victim, is Bartolommeo Ammannati’s 1565 Neptune Fountain. There’s a pretty fine selection of Florentine statuary seen here, including Cellini’s Perseus holding the head of Medusa and a copy of Michelangelo’s David. The idea really took off, and a year later they burned Savonarola, too. The bloody knife fight was filmed in the Piazza della Signoria – the site of the original ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ when in 1497 followers of religious fanatic Savonarola burned all their worldly possessions. A Room With A View: the knife fight: Piazza della Signoria, Florence | Photograph: iStockphoto / Lillis Photography ![]()
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