I captured this moment in downtown Porto Empedocle, an obscure but surprising lovely place on the western coast of Sicily, right near Agrigento (where Luigi Pirandello is from). It’s famous mostly as the hometown of Andrea Camilleri, who wrote the wildly popular Inspector Montalbano series which is set in a town that resembles Porto Empedocle. This statue is of Inspector Montalvano himself, and it’s based on the description of him that Camilleri offers. Used to academic conversations of temples and authors, we all loved seeing our professors grinning over this character from a series they both happen to follow. –AG