{"id":1701,"date":"2018-04-09T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2018-04-09T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:51:59","slug":"the-mafia-dons-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"The Mafia Dons & Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Florence still feels handworked, like burnished gold, and an astonishment of deeply human masterpieces.\u00a0 <\/span>The jewel box is also beset, overrun by tourists, but who can blame them – we dropped in, mother-daughter duo, for a quick day and a half.\u00a0 <\/span>We were under the umbrella (it rained) of centuries of wealth, but the stand-out banking family and political dynasty, the Medicis, have always intrigued.\u00a0 <\/span>As a young art history student, I asked if Cosimo, Piero and Lorenzo\u2019s ruthless capitalism was worth the price for the brilliant Renaissance art they fostered – Fra Lippi, Botticelli, Massacio. I said yes.\u00a0 <\/span>Vita brevis, ars longa.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

History has always had rapacious capitalist mafia powerbroker in office – we have ours now.\u00a0 <\/span>The difference is ours doesn\u2019t have a shred of civic minded humanism.\u00a0 <\/span>Our billionaire ego-in-chief can\u2019t compartmentalize and rise above, even for a short time.\u00a0 <\/span>What if he could be a patron of real culture, not cheesy ersatz stuff.\u00a0 <\/span>Narcissism has always been a part of patronage; ego and power are part of the deal; real leaders see beyond to the bigger picture. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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