Tuscany was not only the caldron of some of the thinking of the young Albert Einstein; it was also the home of another great genius who lived 400 years earlier, Leonardo da Vinci, who delighted in climbing the Tuscan hills and viewing the ground from a great height, as if he were soaring like a bird.
Dante also lived in Tuscany (in Florence), and his Divine Comedy features a journey out to the edge of space-time; and he imagined the journey as taken, essentially, at the speed of light.
