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Globalog Florence: March 2008

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008. The cold wind and spitting rain caught Stacy and I as we stepped off the 2 1/2 hour ride on a local train. A walk through the city gate, and up the hill took us to the Basilica of Saint Frances of Assisi where the artist Giotto painted important frescoes. To learn more. Perhaps Saint Francis was an inspiration to Giotto, for a saint who had the humility to speak with birds might have inspired Giotto to respect the world as it is and represent it more faithfully. Arriving mid-mo...

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Globalog Florence: January 2008

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Thursday, January 31, 2008. Curves in Florence soften appearances while increasing strength. Here are welcomed curves outside and inside my apartment, and the big curve seen from all over in Florence. This curve in my apartment has been turned into an unwelcome rectangle to produce a most uncomfortable seating situation. Stacy said it was probably designed by a woman who doesn’t use the bathroom as a library. Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Was accurately seeing where the ball went every time. I’m not a...

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Globalog Florence: May 2008

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Friday, May 16, 2008. I will never be the same. Teaching at Lorenzo de Medici and living in Florence has been a mind altering experience. I might (hopefully) lose the fifteen pounds put on, but I won't lose the friends, the memories, and the gift to wonder, again. Some of the folks who made my stay terrific:. And ask, "Come stai? I met Fabrizio for the first time when he handed me one of the cookies he was passing out in the LdM library. Markus is Faculty and Course Coordinator. Underlying the long o...

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Globalog Florence: April 2008

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Monday, April 28, 2008. Napoleon slept here, too? Massive and brutish, the Palazzo Pitti was original built as a home for the Florentine banker, Lucas Pitti in 1458, later purchased and enlarged by the Medicis, and from then on it was the seat of Florentine power until it was turned into a museum in 1919. Even Napoleon Bonaparte used it as his Italian palace; his royal bathroom and tub is displayed in all its glory. Titian's Venus of Urbino in the Uffizi. My walk home from the Palazzo Pitti at half past ...

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Globalog Florence: Farewell to Florence

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Friday, May 16, 2008. I will never be the same. Teaching at Lorenzo de Medici and living in Florence has been a mind altering experience. I might (hopefully) lose the fifteen pounds put on, but I won't lose the friends, the memories, and the gift to wonder, again. Some of the folks who made my stay terrific:. And ask, "Come stai? I met Fabrizio for the first time when he handed me one of the cookies he was passing out in the LdM library. Markus is Faculty and Course Coordinator. Underlying the long o...

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Forbidden fruit or just guilty pleasures? | Vinoteca ruminations

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Pull up a glass of wine and chat with us…. Laquo; Ice in my chardonnay. Forbidden fruit or just guilty pleasures? September 12, 2010 by cziamandanis. Why is it that having a glass of wine before 5 pm signals some sort of perversity? Why does that glass of wine taste so good before 5 pm, say on a Sunday afternoon like today, with a light drizzle outside, and the house empty except for me and the dog? Are we still living the hangover from Prohibition? And that snapshot sticks in your mind? With a bottle of...

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The rrrrrrroot of the word…. and the fruit flies! | Vinoteca ruminations

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Pull up a glass of wine and chat with us…. Laquo; Please don’t leave me…. Ch- ch- ch- changes! The rrrrrrroot of the word…. and the fruit flies! September 23, 2010 by cziamandanis. So the rrrrrrroot of any word is Greek, according to Mr. Portocalos, in a great review. Of Greek culture. (Another post is how accurate the movie might be, say, should one marry into a Greek family. Ahem, NB last name of this blogger….). The rrrrrrroot of our fruit fly infestation has been uncovered! To do with Concord grapes.

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Globalog Florence: Art and Tourists

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. It's normal to wade through tourists now that high season is upon Florence. Luckily (for me) most of the tourists spend their time lined up at a few major sites for long hours. Though there are fewer at secondary sites, groups are unavoidable and have been part of the Florentine landscape since medieval times. A more naturalistic arrangement of figures was a benefit of understanding perspective in renaissance painting as in this Masaccio detail (1426). May 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM.

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Globalog Florence: Napoleon slept here, too?

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Monday, April 28, 2008. Napoleon slept here, too? Massive and brutish, the Palazzo Pitti was original built as a home for the Florentine banker, Lucas Pitti in 1458, later purchased and enlarged by the Medicis, and from then on it was the seat of Florentine power until it was turned into a museum in 1919. Even Napoleon Bonaparte used it as his Italian palace; his royal bathroom and tub is displayed in all its glory. Titian's Venus of Urbino in the Uffizi. My walk home from the Palazzo Pitti at half past ...