12th century Tuscan farm house, near Florence (Firenze), for sale August 2000 (click here for sales info) This house, at least from the photographs, strikes me as "hauntingly" beautiful, as if living in it would somehow change my experience of time, infusing each moment with heightened awareness of [my relation to] eternity, as well as of my [inevitable appointment with] mortality (read: About time; also: The Summoning of Everyman [1485]). More photos of house: entry (detail) at center of this side; opposite side; this side from above; end side (here in shadow). See also: Leonardo da Vinci drawing of Tuscan landscape.

I finally figured out (04Jan03) part of the reason why this image attracted me: As a child, living in Baltimore ca. 1960, I would often go on a road that went past Rosa Poncelle's "Villa Pace". I would look up from the road to see the villa in the distance, high above me, near the top of a hill, overlooking the Greenspring Valley -- as if it was part of a different and "higher" world than I lived in.

See Leonardo da Vinci drawing of Tuscan landscape.

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Leisure is the basis of culture. Go/Return  to text of Medieval "morality play" The Summoning of Everyman. Return/Go to quotes about time ("it's About time").   See  another kind of eternity: A Florida U.S.A. golf community. See  Villa Pizza with pepperoni and cheese (Chappaqua NY USA, 2004).

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