A Palazzo Vecchio in music all to laugh at in the new video by Lorenzo Baglioni, Florentine comedian and singer

All of Palazzo Vecchio in a song: this is the goal that Lorenzo Baglioni, a young comedian and songwriter born in Grosseto but Florentine by adoption, has set for himself with his new video clip. Baglioni, born in 1986, has a doctorate in mathematics, has worked as a teacher in schools and decided to combine his job and his passion for music and laughter in his art: in fact, the comedian is known for his “instructive” songs dedicated to topics from... school study (with a song about the subjunctive, he also participated in the 2018 Sanremo Festival in the New Entries category). So far, he had tried his hand at math, physics, Italian, economics, and this is the first time for art history.

The new song, all shot inside Florence’s palace of civic power, is a kind of celebration of the reopening of the city’s museums:“at this moment,” Baglioni wrote to comment on the video, “we have the unique opportunity to see our cities as we have never seen them. It’s good for us, it’s good for our country.”

And so here is the song that takes the audience on a tour of Palazzo Vecchio, with an unusual tour that sees Baglioni wandering the halls changing musical genre in each room: rock ’n’ roll, swing, rap, reggaeton and more. And in succession there are Giorgio Vasari ’s frescoes in the Salone dei Cinquecento, the monumental quarters with the hall of Leo X, the hall of Cosimo the Elder and the hall of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and then again the Sala dei Gigli with Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes, the Sala del Mappamondo (the “Google Maps” of the time, says Baglioni, who points out that back then they were anything but Terrapiattists), and the climb up Arnolfo’s tower.

The video ends precisely with the view of Florence: “this palace with the ladies and the heroes,” Baglioni sings, “is a piece of life, it’s a part of us: in the stone resonate in future memory the words of those who made history. To learn about it is to understand who we are, where we are going and where we came from. And watching Florence blaze out there, beauty saves us and makes us better.” A few words, but effective, to remark on the importance of culture for individual and collective growth. To see the video, just go to Lorenzo Baglioni’s Facebook page.

A Palazzo Vecchio in music all to laugh at in the new video by Lorenzo Baglioni, Florentine comedian and singer

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