Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 18, 2015

Explain the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics to me.

Michelangelo did make a snowman. The account is in Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists. “It is said that Piero de’ Medici, who had long associated with Michelangelo, often sent for him, wishing to buy antique cameos and other intaglios, and one snowy winter he got him to make a beautiful snow statue in the court of his palace.”Maybe a snow angel?

Caulfield’s sculpture technique is the opposite of Michaelangelo’.s. Mike started with a block of stone, and removed excess. Caulfield starts with a handful of snow and adds more.

Maizing. Just skip reading the comments if they bother you so much.

I’m sorry to agree about the use of “Firenze”. The name Florence is so famous that it’s become part of English, just like every other famous city whose Italian names you would never use and often wouldn’t even recognize.

(When it comes to foreign nations, we often don’t even know their native names. Magyar? Suomi? Nihon? Zhongguo?)

Exterminate!

Bharat. Also Deutschland, Hellas, and Al-Misr. I found ‘Firenze’ a bit pretentious, but nothing to get het up about. Then again, I’m comfortable with ‘Torino’ for Turin.

No, you have it exactly backwards. Surely you must have a chart of IE languages somewhere.

Frazz being Frazz, he calls a country by the name that it uses for itself. It used to be “Fiorenzia”.