BERNINIANA

Speranza

Unlike the terrible and lonely giant of the sixteenth century that was Michelangelo Buonarroti, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, the son of a Florentine father and a Neapolitan mother, was a person of INFINITE CHARM, a brilliant and WITTY talker, fond of CONVIVIALITY, ARISTOCRATIC in demeanour, a good husband and father, a first-rate organiser, and endowed with an unparalleled talent for creating rapidly and with ease.