I definitely caught a cold and did a lot of nose blowing and coughing in the evening. I didn’t feel too bad in the morning but the classroom I am in is tiny and trying not to cough on everyone would be stressful for me. I called in sick.

I went out to buy fruit and yoghurt, then headed to San Salvi east of the Florence walls. Google said it would take 45 minutes. It took me 55 minutes at a sedate pace.

More graffiti as you get away from the centre

I came to see Andrea del Sarto’s Last Supper in the convent refectory.

Only one other person there when I arrived and when she left, I was alone.

The painting was started in 1519, more than 25 years after Leonardo started his last supper in Milan. Like Leonardo’s depiction, Judas is not sitting on the opposite side of the table alone.

Ghirlandaio’s Last Supper at San Marco painted in 1482, 16 years before Leonardo started his, is one of the typical arrangements.

Sometimes you can pick out Judas because he is holding bread, having eaten before Jesus blessed the bread. Sometimes he is hold a bag of money.

This has neither.

The guy on the far right below seems to have something in his hand but I have never seen a grey-haired Judas and up close it looks like it’s mostly fingers and not sure he is holding something.

But the guy to Christ’s immediate right (far right in the photo below) is reaching for bread. He also has hair that is a bit wild and almost has devil horn shapes sticking up. And of course, black hair is often indicates a bad guy in Italian paintings.

On the walk back, I tried a different route. I got a whole new view of the Duomo.

Streets in this area are straight with 20th century constructed buildings.

Piazza Cesare Beccaria is dedicated to the man considered the father of criminal justice. He was an Enlightenment thinker and opponent of the death penalty. The piazza features one of the gates of the old medieval wall, Porta alla Croce.

The piazza is next to a gelateria on my list, Gelateria de’Medici. They did not have nocciola so I had cioccolato and moro, a dark chocolate. Both were very good, not too sweet.

I eventually needed a bathroom so used my pass to go into the Bargello which has clean modern washrooms. Since I was there, I looked around. Not many people visiting.

The sunlight picked up the details on Donatello’s David and Goliath.