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Jun
Author: Casey Stevens
25
May
Poeta! Poeta!
One by one each child dressed in a white robe with a white lily in hand marched in a single file line down the middle of the street. Parents and photographers lined the side walk with Canon cameras and iphone videos while the...
24
May
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
For our free day, Amanda and I took a train to Verona from Florence to see Romeo and Giulietta’s balconies. The train ride was about 2 hours long, and we had about 6 hours between the arriving train and departing train. When we...
23
May
Michelangelo’s David
Next to various works of art, Michelangelo’s David is one of the most well known Italian renaissance pieces of all time. The sculpture is seventeen feet tall, and was originally sculpted to be on top of Florence Cathedral. After Michelangelo sculpted the masterpiece,...
17
May
Italian Architecture vs. American
The plane started to descend from the clouds of the sky, and from the tiny plastic window I could see the coast of Italy below like a detailed map unfolded across a table. Amanda and I held hands as we dropped closer and...