Comments on: Pietrasanta

By: hikmat

hikmat — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:12:18 +0000

hi im from israel im an artist and im interisted on the marble sculpting can i have more information about the time ond the oust please? thank you

By: hebegb

hebegb — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:33:29 +0000

Joseph, yes, train service between the two exists. Try http://www.trenitalia.it, or http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html
Enter the cities and your date, and it will tell you what trains are scheduled that day/time.
I know for sure there is a direct Ryanair Stanstead-Pisa flight. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a British Airways or Alitalia Heathrow-Florence one too. Not sure though.
In bocca al lupo! (Good luck!)
GB

By: Paula Giangreco Cullison

Paula Giangreco Cullison — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:17:39 +0000

When translated, his surname (Pietrasanta) means Holy Stone.
Pietra (stone) Santa (holy)
ItalianNotebook is always most interesting. GRAZIE!

By: Joseph F. Krupsky

Joseph F. Krupsky — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:06:37 +0000

This is not a comment, but, rather, two questions:
1. Is there train service from Rome up to P?
2. Is there air service from London to Florence? Pisa? If so, which is better?
My tap tap machine (a/k/a computer) skills are not sufficiently cultivated to find out these answers.Something about teach tricks to dogs. Moreover, nothing beats advice from someone who’s gone on before.
Did enjoy this recent communique from you. Excuse my forwardness, but keep up the good words.
If I might suggest, at the next “unveiling” and “uncorking”, please, have someone read aloud da Vinci’s savage, bad mouth comments on sculptors. A good howl will be had by all. It’s contained in his “Treatise on Painting.”
Grrazie mille.

By: Joseph F. Krupsky

Joseph F. Krupsky — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:16:48 +0000

Pemit me to note a correction. Pietrasanta does not mean, Holy Stone.
In the recent scholarly book, “Michaelangelo’s Mountain” by Eric Scigliano,it is noted that
“The town’s name sends travel writers waxing poetic….The name’s origin actually has nothing to do with stone. In 1215 the republic of Lucca deputed a Milanese nobleman, Guiscardo Pietrasanta, to consolidate its control over this strategic choke point between the mountains and sea; he founded the town that bears his name….” (P.192).
Joseph F. Krupksy
Basking Ridge NJ

By: Michael Marcelli

Michael Marcelli — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:10:17 +0000

The whole nine yards, from the development of the idea, the work in progress to the finished piece is indescribedly beautiful. I yearn to witness it from the loosening of the marble from the mountain, the blocking-out of the idea to its completion. It knocks me out. Just lovely.

By: Claudia McCadden

Claudia McCadden — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:39:01 +0000

Can we say what wonderful work is done here!!!!
I too would enjoy watching the artists at their sculpturing.
How fulfilling they must feel when the sculpture is finally completed.

Thank you for the article.

Ciao,

Claudia

By: Paula (Giangreco) Cullison

Paula (Giangreco) Cullison — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:46:35 +0000

I always enjoy your issues and this one on Pietrasanta was of special interest to me. According to my mother, her grandmother was given the surname Pietra Santa, because she was the illegitimate child of a Bourbon soldier and a local town’s girl (in Calatafimi (TP), Sicily).
My maternal great-grandmother was apparently left behind the church door and raised by the convent nuns. Do you know of any other stories like this one? Grazie Mille, Paula (Giangreco / Pace) Cullison

By: Monica J. Pileggi

Monica J. Pileggi — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:58:18 +0000

Beautiful sculpture! I’d love to see the artists in action.