Masonic Youth: Devils in Florence
Back in the city that has to be the Mamma of all conspiracy theories and everything Esoteric and Occult, with a real slamming conspiracy doom core track titled ... On this visit to Florence as a masonic youth duo in full costume we again visited the English cemetery the Stibbert museum gardens and did some posing at Piazza Michelangelo.There is so much to see in Florence that we still didn't get round to filming the Medici Villa Careggi, which once housed Ficino's Neo Platonic Academy,we'll get there in the very near future. The main devil featured is the Devil of the old market which is also all over the wall of the Stibbert Museum, Stibbert was a Freemason and also had an Egyption temple complete with Obelisk and all the usual masonic trimmings. No photography allowed at the English Cemetery, where Elizabeth Barrett Browning and numerous other 19th century esoteric Jet Set lay in what has now become little more than the "traffic island of the dead" in the middle of one of the busy main drags, she probably still reading the Egyptian Book of the dead which she translated. The film opens with a shot of the Old market This, which was the 'Old Market' even in the eleventh century, was the oldest part of Florence, intersected by narrow alleys and full of quaint old houses. A cook-shop, five hundred years old, in the Mercato itself, had interesting majolica decorations. In the Via dei Vecchietti was the place called the Palazzo della Cavajola(of the Cabbage.woman) which belonged to the Vechietti. Here Bernardo received Giovanni da Bologna, who made the quaint charming bronze figure of the Devil, low down on the corner of the house, marking the site of a pulpit from which St Pietro Martire exorcised the Evil One. So there you go the Devil is quaint and charming, looks like he/ she / it is about to give birth, or perhaps is already giving birth to what it's hard to say. Lots of animal heads sticking out (or in) of all the obvious places.