Clarissa Tan

Clarissa Tan’s Notebook: Why I stopped drinking petrol

Plus: The problem with Michelangelo's David; Florentine food is actually Cantonese food

issue 25 January 2014
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Florence was in fog the day I arrived. Its buildings were bathed in white cloud, its people moved as though through steam. The Arno river was a dense strip of dew. At the Piazzale Michelangelo, the statue of David was etched by the surrounding murkiness to a stark silhouette, the renaissance defined by gothic cloud.
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