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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>- says Rezia out loud. And so we should –
especially now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style='face: "Times' New roman?><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
style='COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'>It
is understandable that Rezia should compare Regent’s Park with the Milan
gardens, and sneer at the ‘</SPAN><SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'>people
here, huddled up in Bath chairs, looking at a few ugly flowers stuck in
pots!<SPAN style="COLOR: ">’<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if
Woolf had herself never seen the Milan gardens, would she have made the
comparison?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style='face: "Times' New roman?><FONT color=#000000>The old station in Milan was
in the <I>Piazza della Repubblica</I><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">,
where there are now only trams. Adjacent to the Piazza is the Via Manin, and in
the Via Manin is the Hotel Manin from where Woolf wrote to Madge</SPAN> Vaughan
in May 1909 (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">L</I>1 393). <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>A nineteenth-century hotel, it was
unfortunately totally destroyed in an air raid on 13 August 1943<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">, and the new hotel, while expensive, looks
dull.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000>Opposite the Hotel Manin is the east side of the Giardini
Publici. They were begun when Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, owned
Milan.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>‘In 1856–1862 architect
Giuseppe Balzarett[i] designed the enlargement of the west side of the Gardens
based on the English landscape park model with artificial hills, ro[c]ks, and
lakes. These works were concluded after the Unification of Italy.’<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are a number of notable buildings,
such as the Palazzo Dugnani, which belonged to the family that owned the area in
the eighteenth century, and the Natural History Museum.</FONT></P>
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color=#000000>So there is an irony: the gardens are kind of English, while
Regent’s Park is, after all, mainly park rather than gardens. Anyway,
<SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'><FONT
style='face: "Times' New roman?>it is undeniable that Woolf visited the
gardens.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style='face: "Times' color=#000000 New roman?><SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'>However,
the gardens are now called the Giardini Indro Montenelli (1909-2001) after this
‘popular journalist and writer, who was known to relax in the park every morning
before entering the nearby offices of his newspaper, </SPAN></FONT><A
title="Il Giornale"
style='href: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Giornale"'><I><SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'><FONT
style="COLOR: #0000ff" color=#000000><FONT color=#000000>Il</FONT> <FONT
color=#000000>Giorn</FONT><FONT
color=#000000>ale</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I></A><SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'><FONT
style='face: "Times' color=#000000 New roman?>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Montanelli was also shot in the legs by
the terrorist group </FONT></SPAN><A title="Brigate Rosse"
style='href: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigate_Rosse"'><SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'><FONT
style="COLOR: #0000ff" color=#000000><FONT color=#000000>Brigate</FONT> <FONT
color=#000000>Rosse</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN
style='mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin'><FONT
style='face: "Times' New roman?><FONT color=#000000> on June 2, 1977; his statue
has been placed close to the spot where this happened’.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Below is my photo of the
statue.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='face: "Times' New roman?><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><IMG title="P1040940 Indro Montanelli"
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style='face: "Times' New roman?><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">“<SPAN
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color=#202122>In June 2020, a statue of Indro Montanelli in Milan was vandalised
by activists, in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was painted
red and tagged with the words ‘racist, rapist’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; TEXT-ALIGN: left; ORPHANS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><FONT
color=#202122>. This was done to highlight what protesters considered a
forgotten chapter of Montanelli's past, and voice anger that a statue was
erected to him in light of this after his death in 2001. At the age of 26 year
old, when he was in </FONT></SPAN><FONT style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"
color=#000000>Italian Ethiopia</FONT><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; TEXT-ALIGN: left; ORPHANS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><FONT
color=#202122> (former Abyssinia), he bought a 12 year old female child, that he
married and in different interviews he called her 'a small animal'.”
(Wikipedia) </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; TEXT-ALIGN: left; ORPHANS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style='face: "Times' New roman?><FONT color=#202122><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; TEXT-ALIGN: left; ORPHANS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">And
see:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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title=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53042350
href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53042350">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53042350</A></P>
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color=#202122>Stuart </FONT></P>
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color=#202122>(Day 94)</FONT></P>
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