Norms go to Verona // Le Déjeuner Giusti

The Norms are never far behind me. It’s almost as though they live parallel lives. For the Norms have just arrived in Verona, to determine for themselves just how good this famed Italian city really is.

Pretty damn good is their initial conclusion, as they settle down to a picnic in the beautiful shady surroundings of the Giardino Giusti in circumstances which very closely resemble Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe. And why not? The Giusti Gardens are after all a treasure of art history’s green-fingered maestros, so the Norms feel it only appropriate that they should adopt an artistic montage amongst this verdant Renaissance beauty.

Norms in the Giardino Giusti (©2018 Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)

And once lunch is done, and that bottle of bubbly consumed, the Norms may have a turn in one of those fine box-hedge mazes too (there’s nothing Norms like more than a titivating flirtation half-shielded behind a hedge or two. Scandalous, I know… but who can blame them in this Shakespearian city of everlasting love?). Enjoy your lunch Norms!

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