View From Your Table

The reader writes:
In Orvieto, Italy the evening before Palm Sunday for the Beethoven Concerto di Pasqua directed by Zubin Metha!! Got to take in a quick doppio espresso to survey the facade of the Duomo.
Orvieto, home of the great American Dante translator Andrew Frisardi! Funnily enough, I was just about to head to bed and look for a passage in his translation of the Vita Nova to read tomorrow at my Dante dinner (May 1 is the anniversary of the date on which Dante met Beatrice for the first time). Thanks, reader…