Piazza Tasso, San Frediano, Florence
Mural in Piazza Tasso
Bollo was a young man living in the San Frediano quarter of Florence, who died of an overdose. The local people painted a mural in his memory. Then one night a man came (apparently he was German and apparently someone took a photo of him) and painted grey paint over the mural with a roller on a long stick. He completely covered the whole mural.
A few days later the local people came back and and repainted the mural, following the lines of the original mural that showed faintly through the grey paint. Hundred of local people gathered in the piazza to watch the group of artists working on the mural, to encourage them and praise the finished work.
I asked one of them "Did everyone like Bollo?"
"Yes" he said, "very much."
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