This is Ariadne MacIvor-Fabrizzi as I met her in front of the Palazzo dell'Arte Della Lana, in Florence, a while ago. She's just been with her advisor (seen there sitting, smoking), at the "Società Dantesca", to discuss her Korean translation of some Petrarca Sonnets. Ariadne's mother, Anne MacIvor, came to Florence, met, fell in love, moved in with and got pregnant by Fabio Fabrizzi in the early nineties. When they learned they'll have a baby, they decided to get married and had one of their (0nly) two catastrophic fights: Anne wanted her family name preserved, hyphenated to Fabio's, Fabio (macho Italian) didn't want to hear of it. Anne went and registered Ariadne hyphenated anyway (they had their second huge fight, of which, subsequently, Anne got on a plane back to Glasgow never to return). Fabio raised Ariadne who turned out very well, with an uncanny talent for languages: she learned to be fluent in Spanish, Korean and in Swahili in just two years during University. We had coffee and she talked about her plans and dreams. Short-term plans had to do mostly with food, short-term dreams had to do mostly with naked men with large penises. We never got to the long-term plans and dreams.
Very funny meeting!!
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