Firenze ancora.

We set off early on a second mission to Florence, this time with a parking stragety and a timetable in mind. We visit for the first time the large-ignored "Arte Moderne" gallery of the Palazzo Pitti, which yields several rooms of huge Academia-style portraits and battle-scenes, but also a good selection of 19th- and early 20th-century genre and realist painters of Italy ( and a single wonderful Sargent, a portrait of his friend, sitting on a stool, holding a paint box, with the alps as a backdrop). After a tourist lunch we re-visit the Uffizi, and giving attention to many of the rooms we breezed through during the Dryden visit, and with special discrimination according to our our tastes.