by DHales | Jun 9, 2014 | art, Books, culture, Education, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
From LA BELLA LINGUA to MONA LISA: A Life Discovered While researching my biography of the Italian language in Florence, I became friends with an Italian art historian. One night at dinner in her home on Via Ghibellina, she mentioned that the mother of Lisa...
by DHales | Jan 13, 2013 | art, culture, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Il Divino The Divine One The first Italian “guest” to the United States in “l’anno della cultura italiana” (The Year of Italian Culture) is a statue: the David-Apollo (above), loaned by the Bargello Museum in Florence to the National Gallery of Art in...
