My friend Paolo de Anna sent me this beautiful book of which he is the author. It tells the story of bronze restoration work Bruno Bearzi (a family member of Paolo) undertook in Florence after the second world war. The book is in Italian but I have a dictionary and I plan to read it cover to cover whatever it takes. The Bearzi, Vignali and Gamberini families are bronze workers traceable to Renaissance times. They have been instrumental in spreading bronze working skills all over the world; Sarel Petrus learnt his craft in the Vignali Foundry in Pretoria North, South Africa.
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