PIENZA.- The Palazzo Piccolomini welcomes for the first time an exhibition by Florentine artist Walter Romani. From September 3 to October 16, 2011, over thirty works are presented in the courtyard of this extraordinary Renaissance palazzo. Walter Romani dedicates this exhibition to the late poet Mario Luzi, for whom Pienza was a ‘spiritual home’ and who referred to Walter and his work as “Il Demone del Tramutamento”. “Like a magician, a conjurer, with a unique understanding, Walter Romani takes us into his poetic universe, touched with irony and much ingenuity. To create the works, he selected ‘cardboard’ but cardboard that has already seen a prior use: to package, to protect, to contain, to transport objects, food, goods. The works – sculptures, paintings, jewellery, books,