Originally Posted By: Footreads
When I met him he always hid one of his hands


You didn't say exactly when you met him, but it's entirely possible that by then the Parkinson's symptoms were already starting to show. He may have concealed the hand that had obvious trembling, but this would not have shown in still photographs.


Signor V.

"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."