Le macchine di Leonardo da Vinci

After the tour of the Jewish Ghetto, we walked to Campo dei Fiori, where there is a small produce market every morning, and the combination of the flowers and sunshine made it smell like spring. Then I realized that if I was in Philadelphia it would smell like snow with a hint of gun violence, and I missed you guys. I wish I could send you this to protect yourselves:



Around the corner is the Palazzo Cancellaria where there is a temporary exhibit on the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, genius extraordinaire. (One might even venture to call him a Renaissance Man, haha) The brochure assured us that it was interactive and there was a picture of a few people sitting in a wooden war tank (the above picture) looking very happy and excited, so we figured we could be those people and headed into the exhibit. It was however less interactive than we had hoped. You couldn't go into the flying contraptions, or the floats on water, and the tank had 2 large chains across the front, so we couldn't even reenact the brochure. Nevertheless there were plenty of small prototypes with cranking wheels and moving parts that you could mess with. I had fun, even though I got a little too jealous of the wooden mannequins who got to use le macchine.





P.S. Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the bicycle? Mind Blown.