Hannibal Lecter is lying low, as ‘Dr Fell’, in Florence, Italy, where he lives and works in the library of the Palazzo Capponi, via dei Bardi 36. Avaricious cop Pazzi spies on Fell as he sips coffee in a cafe on Piazza della Republica, and the doctor is spotted on security cameras as he buys hand cream at the Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, via delle Scala 16.
Pazzi buys a silver bracelet (on which to collect Lecter’s fingerprints) on the Ponte Vecchio, over the River Arno. It’s beneath the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo that Lecter foils (and, naturally, guts) the pickpocket, and that Pazzi washes the blood from his hands in the wild boar fountain, Il Porcellino.
The opera (which was written specially for the film) was staged, coincidentally, in the courtyard of the Pazzi Chapel, next to the monastery of Santa Croce. The square with the monumental sculptures is, of course, Piazza della Signoria overshadowed by the Palazzo Vecchio. Although the interior of the Palazzo was reconstructed in a warehouse just outside Florence, it is the real exterior from which the unfortunate Pazzi is ejected: “Bowels in or bowels out?”.
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