Roberto Foa

He then discovered that the other half of the original collection had been separated, probably on inheritance, and was in the hands of a private family, the Durazzo family.

Through strenuous effort and the financial backing of two Turin bankers named Roberto Foa and Filippo Giordano, who donated the funds as a memorial to their respective sons, both of whom had died young, the two halves of the collection were reunited in the National University Library of Turin by nineteen thirty.

This collection, now known as the Fondo Foa-Giordano, remains in Turin today.

It comprises approximately four hundred and fifty works, including a hundred and ten violin concertos, dozens of operas, a large body of sacred music, and numerous other works in Vivaldi's own handwriting.

Um, and it turned out that it, uh, was all in service, um, of preparing the speech that, uh, George W. Bush then gave in, I believe, the fall of 2017, uh, about, uh, democratic institutions and the threat to them, which was a kind of i- indirect rebuke of Donald Trump for, as you point out, he never mentions Trump's name in it.

He does, uh, use the term democratic deconsolidation, which is a term that my colleague Roberto Foa and I made up.

And of course-

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