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I have
many hobbies besides music. Most of them are related to modellism. I have
explored practically every field. I started building planes, both flying
and static plastic models. In this particular field I became quite clever.
Sometimes I modified the kits to reproduce particular models and sometimes
I built them from scratch using wood. Then I slowly switched to lead
soldiers and naval static modellism. I have finished only one model of ship
but it was a really difficult one. It is a model of a French flagship of
1636, quite a big model of 80cm of length for over 1m in height. I'm now
working on a model of an American cutter. Anyway the field that interested
me more in the end was the lead soldiers painting. Here it is an example of
some of my models, representing Austrian soldiers of the second half of
19th century.
These are some more examples of my work. This set of models was exhibited,
beside many others, at Museo Stibbert, here in Florence. It was a
monographic exposition about medieval communal armies in Tuscany. All these
models have an height of 54mm. Normally the blank lead model can be bought
and the modeller paints it applying chiaroscuro technique to
enhance the apparent depth of shadows. On the contrary the four models up
here are unique pieces built using spare parts from other models. They
represent two foreign mercenaries (first and third), the Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire (the second) and an Italian peasant.
There are many other model dimensions available. I used to paint also 25mm
and 90mm models. This particular hobby turned out to be a good money input
when I started to accept commisions by collectors. I was still a student
then, and this was a most welcome source of income. I bought my first lute mostly with the money gained from this
activity.
Another
hobby I have is the Calcio in Costume. What is this? It is a
revival of an historical tournament that was held during the Imperial army
siege of Florence, in 1536. The game itself is a match between two big
teams of 27 men: something between football, rugby and wrestling. It is a
game that was quite popular in Renaissance Florence. It was played by the
nobility too: even Lorenzo il Magnifico played sometimes in his youth. It
is said that the modern football game was the English version of this old
Florentine game that was introduced in England by travelers. By far the
modern football has more rules and it is a lot fairer. The only rule in the
Calcio in Costume is that the ball must be kept running. If not,
the game is paused and restarted. Normally a Calcio in Costume
match ends up in a big fight. This is a photo of one of the last games held
in Piazza della Signoria for the S.Giovanni feast (S.Giovanni is
the patron of Florence). Now the game is held no more there because of the
risks for the artworks of the square.
Obviously I'm not one of the player! I am part of the big cortege that
parades through the town center before the start of the game. In particular
I'm part of the fanfare in which I played a small ebony fife. Now I'm the
Maestro dei Musici, that is the fanfare's conductor. The fanfare is made up
of drums and trumpets too. Here is a part of the fanfare: the yellow guys
are the drummers, the red ones are the fifes and the blue ones are the
trumpets. The photo was taken at Malta during one of our transfers.
Here is
the fifes group. The cortege is made up of a lot of people, more than 500.
It is made up of various groups representing army specialties like pike
men, archibursers and knights, and some figures representative of the town
magistrates, like the proconsul of the art and trade guilds, banner bearers
and judges.
Here I am in
my present role of Maestro dei Musici, leanding the fanfare.
And here
here I am asking for a trumpet "fortissimo".
The game takes place every year on late June.