by DHales | Mar 22, 2018 | art, Books, culture, history, Italy, Language, Music, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
La primavera Spring In English the most eagerly awaited of seasons “springs” to life with blunt urgency. In Italian la primavera blossoms into four elegant syllables. My etymological dictionary traces primavera back to radici indoeuropee (Indo-European...
by DHales | Feb 6, 2015 | art, Books, culture, Fashion, Florence, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
In this guest blog, Susan Van Allen, author of the bestselling 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, introduces five of her Florentine favorites: 1. Botticelli Room in the Uffizi Gallery I love arriving here and settling into...