LIDO (1). «In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock», escreveu o filósofo John Gray. Mas adiantou: «This isn't because artists and writers do their best work when they're being persecuted — a Romantic cliche that doesn't stand up to any careful inquiry.»