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Villa Medici

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January 28th 2011
In one of my classes, "The Villa and the Garden," we spend 2/3rds of our classtime on site. During the week, this means that our 2 hour Wednesday class is spent within Florence, but because villas are located in the countryside by definition, this also means we have many Friday Field Trips. Silvia, our professor, is really awesome though and often gives us Monday off when we go on a Friday Trip. ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more