The Coliseum

September 12th 2005
A very lazy weekend… Friday morning, I had to go register with the police. It wasn’t a big deal, but the cute police officer told me I had beautiful eyes, and I got finger-printed, so it was an interesting morning. That afternoon, we were supposed to have a tour of the Coliseum and Palatine Hill, but the Coliseum was closed for “technical reasons”. So we’re going to on the tour this w ... 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

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Katie Elizabeth

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I’m a fourth year architecture major at the University of Arkansas (Go Hogs!). I’ll be spending the semester in Italy, as I am participating in our school’s study abroad program in Rome. “If I look at some excellent statue, I say within my heart: "When will you be able to remove the excess from a block of marble and reveal so lovely a figure hidden therein? When will you know how to mix different colors and spread them over a canvas or a wall and represent all visible objects by their means, like a Michelangelo, a Raphael, or a Titian?” -Galileo Galilei “Dialogue Concerning the Two ... full info

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