T-shirt with "A Country on the Bridge" design by Daniele Calamandrei

A design derived from a reworking of a leather inlay decoration, dedicated to Florence's most famous bridge, before it was "Old", without the corridor above it leading to Palazzo Pitti. One might say it was somewhere between "Taddeo Gaddi and Giorgio Vasari," with the overhanging houses of the "butchers," as if creating a separate village.
Represented like this, without Vasari's corridor, during the days of the Covid-19 epidemic or in the era of multifaceted wars (piecemeal, hybrid, asymmetric, multi-front warfare), it takes on a particular meaning: the "butchers," whose houses were those on the bridge, overhanging the river, carried out unhealthy and smelly activities and were, for this reason, isolated from the city center. They represented what we did not want to see or hear, like the threatening scenarios we would like to think of as distant from us.
Vasari's corridor, which served to connect private life with public and political life, is no longer present in this drawing, as if to underscore the clear division between the two spheres: politics is as if it were nonexistent, no longer concerned with collective interests, focusing only on the interests of a few, be they oligarchs, technocrats, or criminals.
And then, a town on the Bridge, as if suspended, deciding which shore to land on: towards the south, guided by emotion, to face inequality, injustice, and environmental damage; or towards the rationality of the north, the logic of deterrence or technological, energy, or political dominance.
Finally, that same Bridge, which later became a symbol of the Liberation of Florence, because that corridor, no longer present in the drawing, had facilitated the passage of the men and women of the resistance. In short, a corridor whose presence is felt even in its absence.