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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Bernini | | English term or phrase: digging | Documentario di Simon Schama su Bernini
(Borromini parla della torre costruita da Bernini per la chiesa di San Pietro)
“Well, what do you expect?” says Borromini.
“The tower’s too tall. / It’s too heavy for its base supports.
“It’s so unwieldy. / It’s built recklessly on swampy ground.
“It’s amazing, actually, it hasn’t collapsed already.
“It’s all very well going digging beneath the tower / after the event
“to see how serious the damage is.
Potete dirmi se ho tradotto tutto bene??
“Beh, cosa ti aspettavi?”, dice Borromini.
“La torre è troppo alta ed è troppo pesante per le sue fondamenta.
“E’ troppo ingombrante. E’ stata costruita incautamente su un terreno instabile.
“In realtà, è strano che non sia già crollata!
"It’s all very well going digging beneath the tower / after the event" |
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4 hrs confidence: sara`meglio andare a vedere sotto lo scavo della torre per verificare la gravita` della situazione..
Explanation:
1)Nel 1644 Bernini, che era stato rispettato, ma anche temuto e odiato per il potere quasi dittatoriale esercitato sul mondo artistico romano, subì anche l'umiliante abbattimento del campanile posto sulla facciata della Basilica di San Pietro, per problemi di statica e per la natura cedevole del terreno sui cui insistevano.
2)if you say that something is all very well, you mean that although it is good in some ways, it is bad in some ways too
Example sentence(s):- Electric heating is all very well, but what happens if there's a power cut?
Reference: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+all+very+well
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