Cultural References
Mark Twain briefly praises the cemetery in his Innocents Abroad, and Friedrich Nietzsche visited the cemetery frequently in the 1880s with his friend Paul Ree and had many long philosophical discussions as they strolled through the funereal colonnades.
Staglieno was the subject of a 2003 book of photographs by Lee Friedlander. The Appiani family tomb, by Demetrio Paernio, featured on the cover of English band Joy Division's album Closer, photographed by Bernard Pierre Wolff.
In that same year, a smaller selection of Friedlander's Staglieno photographs were published by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, in a limited edition set of photogravures. The portfolio case of the project was bound in red coffin velvet to enhance the memorial effect of the project.
According to "The Making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by Charles Helfenstein, the original opening for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in early scripts was supposed to take place at the Staglieno Cemetery. The plot involved Blofeld faking his own death and Bond visiting the Blofeld crypt at the Staglieno Cemetery to insure he his dead.
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