From Ballarini To Baldacchini 2 July 2009 Poem by Margaret Alice

Ballarini’s Traboules led to Baldacchini

Oh, goodness gracious me, my current favourite,
Ballarini, has just been replaced by a new hero,
Baldacchini, first name Giuseppe who wrote an
article on Luminescence & Optical Spectroscopy

That reads like one of my own weird translations,
I quote him directly, you can visit the site where
I found this, I can’t work, too delighted to con-
centrate, Baldacchini is singing in my heart:

“This radiant branch of Science
belongs to the old Luminescence,
the finest probe of the atomic process
also when utterly radiationless.'

'Light stimulates a new emission,
temperature can cause excitation,
also in solids, lively electron streams
produce better light than our wildest dreams.”

Bravo, Baldacchini, bravo! It is brilliant, I’m
savouring it - Ballarini, you angelic creature
of useless general information, thank you for
mentioning the word “traboules” which

Forced me to surf the Internet, opening the
delicious delight of Baldacchini,
a true Italian angel of light!

Read the whole article at:
http: //icl08.univ-lyon1.fr/information.php