One afternoon when Gabry's mother was driving us through Milan, we passed the statue of Verdi and I was so wonderfully impressed. It is a striking statue mostly because it is in the middle of a roundabout and there are trees all around so, upon entering the roundabout, it's as if entering a clearing in the middle of the city and there he stands: endlessly at ease in his surroundings.
In my attempts to find the statue for you to see, I discovered that the entries into Wikipedia (which I realize is not the most dependable source for information) are strikingly different in different languages. The English language entry shows a statue which I find much less interesting, especially because Verdi was not originally from Milan and, while he achieved great success at La Scala with his operas, being seated as an older man celebrates him as an institution rather than the standing figure of a younger man who seems to have recently come into his own. (As an act of defiance I will not change the title of this entry because I firmly believe that the standing statue is THE statue to see if you visit.)
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