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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The polis is an ensemble of citizens (III.1.1274b41), and one polis differs from another by its politeia. The interconnections among these terms form one of the themes of the Politics. The word translated as government is politeuma. Two other key terms in the Politics are, in Greek, related to polis: the citizen is a politês and what is translated as constitution, regime, or citizenship is the politeia, a word also used by Aristotle to designate one particular constitution, usually translated as polity. The Politics is named after the polis (plural: poleis), the city-states of Greece. The Nicomachean Ethics ends with a transition to the Politics, setting out a program of debatable relation to what has come down to us as the Politics. Aristotle divides practical science into ethics and politics. But I can assure you that you will be rewarded for this patience at the end. You need to be patient to read this book, as there are several stories within one. 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