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We were wondering about this: a whole tangle of padlocks suddenly appears and grows near a famous site, like dozens and dozens, one attached...

The video I Medici, Signori del Rinascimento is an interesting set of videos about the Medici and their impact on the Renaissance (not insi...

Anna, Anna, bo-banna ( * ) Banana-fana fo-fana Fee-fi-mo-manna. Anna! Thank you Shirley Ellis and The Name Game video . Okay, we’d be remiss...

Oh why do we obsess over small things? For example, laundry detergent. Our favorite laundry detergent is this powder that leaves your clothe...

Funky gym. Someone (who shall remain nameless, but is another American living in Florence) said that Palestra Ricciardi was “funky”. I join...

So far (beside many Internet sites, okay, mostly Wikipedia), I’ve used the four books below. The first two I bought and the second two I bor...

I finished week one of a four week course on the High Renaissance at the British Institute in Florence. (That's why the posts have dwin...

I was in the kitchen around 8:45am and saw and heard the hutch glass doors moving for just a few seconds. I yelled upstairs and asked if eve...