Skip Pompeii, go to Herculaneum
August 27, 2010 – 10:50 am | View Comments

I was searching through some photos from field trips that I led for UGA in 2008 in a bout of nostalgia brought on by an upcoming visit from my friends Roy and Terry who were …

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“Fuori Porta” literally means outside the city gates. Anywhere outside Florence!

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FFF Florence Fast Forward magazine
April 3, 2010 – 6:24 pm | View Comments
FFF Florence Fast Forward magazine

ISSUE #2 OF FFF -FIRENZE FAST FORWARD- IS WELL DONE… Following the success of the first issue, released last summer, FFF keeps feeding new cultural visions and alternative scenarios for Florence. Just like the juicy …

Villa Caruso garden show and deGustiBooks (April 3-5 2010)
March 30, 2010 – 2:11 pm | View Comments
Villa Caruso garden show and deGustiBooks (April 3-5 2010)

Here’s something pleasant to do over Easter weekend: this year the flower show at Villa Caruso combines all things “plant” with art, food, and books (all my favourite things). I Giardini di Caruso 2010 (April …

Venice trip planning resources
March 28, 2010 – 2:48 pm | View Comments
Venice trip planning resources

I am going to Venice for a conference in the week after Easter. It’s the annual Renaissance Society of America conference that, every three years, is held in a European city. They just had to …

How to take the bus in Florence and not get a fine
March 15, 2010 – 2:00 pm | View Comments
How to take the bus in Florence and not get a fine

In case you think this article about “how to take the bus in Florence and not get a fine” is going to involve ways of getting out of paying for a ticket, you’re wrong. Lately …

Sudtirol weekend: fresh air and a totally different Italy
March 7, 2010 – 11:27 pm | View Comments
Sudtirol weekend: fresh air and a totally different Italy

On a whim, I accepted an invitation posted to the members of De Gustibus, a local enogastronomical society, for a “ski weekend” in the Dolomite mountains near Bressanone/ Brixen, in a small town called St. …

Flowers and Savoy royalty at Venaria Reale (Torino)
February 23, 2010 – 2:30 pm | View Comments
Flowers and Savoy royalty at Venaria Reale (Torino)

The 2010 Festival dei Fiori (March 12-15) promises to be a beautiful and royal event. Held at the Venaria Reale near Torino, Italy and Europe’s best flower designers go head to head in competition. You …

Factory Outlet shopping in Prato
February 21, 2010 – 3:06 pm | View Comments
Factory Outlet shopping in Prato

I am at the major tourism show BIT in Milan and have picked up a brochure I think will be of interest to a lot of people who love shopping in Italy. The area in …

Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA
February 18, 2010 – 3:08 pm | View Comments
Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings and the ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy.  The exhibition explores new …

What gift to bring back from Florence?
February 15, 2010 – 2:00 pm | View Comments
What gift to bring back from Florence?

An issue I often face, that I also find people asking on forums is: “What should I bring people from Florence“? Sometimes I’m just going one or two regions away in Italy, so I need …

A Question of Style – high fashion exhibit in Florence
February 11, 2010 – 1:55 pm | View Comments
A Question of Style – high fashion exhibit in Florence

A Question of Style: From the 14th of January at the Museum of the Roberto Capucci Foundation at Villa Bardini, an exhibit of 23 dresses by the Italian designer. The exhibition explores the relationship between …

Italian Trend: contemporary design bookshop cafe’s
February 8, 2010 – 12:11 pm | View Comments
Italian Trend: contemporary design bookshop cafe’s

Lately I’ve noticed a trend that I like very much: the bookshop/library, contemporary design, cafe/restaurant. I mean really, this combines everything I love best! This week I had the fortune of finding two examples of …

That Cupid has arthritis and Mona Lisa has high cholesterol (a rebuttal)
February 1, 2010 – 2:28 pm | View Comments
That Cupid has arthritis and Mona Lisa has high cholesterol (a rebuttal)

I don’t normally write reactionary pieces, but this bit of news has me frothing at the mouth. This Prof. Vito Franco from the pathology department in Palermo has taken to diagnosing illnesses in famous Renaissance …

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