Lunch with Dante

We lunched at the Taverna Divina Commedia just down the street from Dante's house. On the wall they had painted "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch' entrate." The English for that from the Inferno is "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." The lunch was very good though. I had crostini misti and a spina birra- an assortment of spreads on bread and a beer on tap.
Today we went to the Bargello Gallery and Santa Croce Church.
At the Bargello the drunken Bacchus and bust of Brutus both by Michelangelo were highlights.

This lion outside Santa Croce was really giving me the eye.
William at the sarcophagus of Machiavelli.
A precursor of Lady Liberty.
William with a fragment of the robes of St Francis, the patron saint of his birth city, San Francisco.