The Spirit of Ferrara In the quiet streets of Ferrara, a boy named Achille Virgilio Socrate Funi began a life that would eventually seek to reconcile the ancient world with the fractured energy of the modern age. He arrived in the halls of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts as a student around 1906, seeking to master the tools of his craft. In those early years, his brush danced to the frantic rhythms of the Cubo-Futurist movement, finding a home within the Nuove Tendenze group by 1914. He was a young man caught in the momentum of change, experimenting with the fragmented perspectives that defin…