This was at the Italian premier of the Miracle at St. Anna, which my school ever so kindly arranged for its students to attend. The movie was very good, although it was dubbed in Italian so I really only understood half the words. (Nothing like jumping in feet first?)
It's funny, because I look in the newspapers and see them making this big deal about how outraged Italy is at the film having been made. Not a single Italian I've talked to about it has a problem with it. It's historical fiction and everyone knows it.
That was two weeks ago or so. More recently, I made a trip 
to Siena with my art history class. The town is amazing--
completely beautiful with ancient brick buildings and an extravagant church, but I'm glad I'm studying in Florence rather than there.
to Siena with my art history class. The town is amazing--
completely beautiful with ancient brick buildings and an extravagant church, but I'm glad I'm studying in Florence rather than there.Most exciting in my nerdy opinion is that I got to not only see a tuffa wall, but touch it. (Tuffa is an incredibly important stone in the history of Roman architecture. When dry, it's rock-hard, but when wet, you can cut it like clay. Much architectural progress was made because of the stone's properties.) It made me think fondly of freshman year art history.
And here's the tuffa wall, if you wanted to see it:
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So, to illustrate my general ignorance...
When it rains on tuffa, does it fall apart?
Only kidding... kind of.
If you understood 1/2 the movie (already) you are doing VERY well. Keep it up. Tell Sarah to send me a note (I don't have her email :)
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