Artists could gather in Rome and feel at home - that is, they were not doing anything that seemed to contradict either common sense or the utilitarian puritanism of industrial man. And there were many.
The aesthetics of Garibaldi must have appealed and to some must have occurred the notion, unthinkable to the many, that he might sweep away the millennial power of the Vatican - that what had nurtured countless lives, inspired the greatest art, drawn to a climax the most adrenaline-driven spiritual climbers, could be brought down in a day. The drama and pathos of that possibility would have been intoxicating to those who were capable of conceiving it.
Like Stockhausen and 9/11.
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