From Ballarini to Baldacchini

Ballarini’s Traboules led to Baldacchini
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Oh goodness gracious me, my current favourite,
Ballarini, has just been replaced by a new hero,
Baldacchini, first name Giuseppe, he wrote an
article on Luminescence and 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:

“The biggest part of this radiant branch of Science
still belongs to the old known Luminescence,
which is the finest probe of the atomic process
also when it is very often utterly radiationless.

The same light can stimulate a new emission,
but also the temperature is a good excitation,
and lately in solids a lively electron stream
produces light better than in our wildest dream.4

The biological world is also at the center stage
and light may also help to increase our own age,
if we learn to play well with the exotic excitons
which moves fast up to deliver finally the photons.

But the lion share belongs still to the solid matter
which whatever the state has always a typical specter,
from crystals, amorphous materials and insulators,
to polymers, nanostructures and semiconductors.

However, all of that would have been in utter darkness
as before the Big Bang was the universe radiationless,
if color centers, defects, traps, dots and impurities
would not be plentiful with various optical activities.

For all that we had more than one lively discussion
on excitation, energy transfer and prized up conversion,5
but the interaction among people in the Conference
has been its high point for the huge record attendance.

We know today to a great deal the optical properties
because of new, continuous and brilliant discoveries,
to which all of us have given small contributions
but with a few giants6 setting the right directions.

In conclusion, although the schedule was very tight
we enjoyed very much this Conference of the Light,
for which we have to thank a very efficient organization7
and the beautiful country of France for the warm reception.

And now four verses in my own musical language:

In conclusione abbiamo avuto una settimana intensa
che è trascorsa bene e veloce come la nostra esistenza,
ma che rimarrà sempre nei nostri cuori e nelle menti
come un bel momento di grande amicizia e sentimenti.”

Bravo, Baldacchini, bravo! Encore, this is brilliant, I’m
going to spend hours savouring it, and Ballarini, you
angelic creature of useless general information, thank
you for mentioning the word “traboules” which led me

To the Internet to find a translation and opened up the
delicious delight of Baldacchini, an angel of light!

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