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April 10, 2013 – 7:00 am | 4 Comments

It seems cliché to speak of reawakening after a long Winter, but with the amount of rain we got this year, putting England to shame, even a slight glimpse of Spring is extremely welcome. Easter came early this year and for a few hours on Sunday morning here in Maremma, the skies cleared, the sun …

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Italian Dante Society conferences (Feb/March 2010)

February 3, 2010 – 10:45 am |

The following conference cycle offered by the Italian Dante Society in Florence is free to attend and may be of interest to Italian-speaking readers:
Con Dante, Per Dante
Conferenze e letture
Il ciclo di conferenze si terrà alle ore 16.30 nella
Sala Francesco Mazzoni del Palagio dell’Arte della Lana (Firenze) con il seguente calendario:

Libraries in Florence editable map (Biblioteche di Firenze)

January 25, 2010 – 11:30 am | 2 Comments

At a conference on the use of internet by libraries, archives and museums that I attended the other day (live blog here), Elena Farinelli brought up an interesting fact: if you search “Biblioteca Firenze” on google, only the BNCF comes up on the map. This is because Florentine public institutions, and also the private libraries …

Academic Conferences in Florence, Fall 2009

October 28, 2009 – 9:40 am |

Fellow scholars in Florence. How often have you gone to the library and seen a poster for a conference that took place LAST WEEK that you would have liked to attend? How often is your inbox filled with last minute invitations from institutes offering seminars that, had you known in advance, you might have attended? …