Volta

Alessandro Volta was born on the 18th of February 1745, 270 years ago in Como, Italy.

Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960.

[…][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.