The Uffizi Gallery in Florence: The EuroTraveler Studies the Works of the Masters
January 18th 2009 Care to journey back with me to the 13th century to study the masters in one of the most famous art collections in the world? To get up close and personal with Giotto, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bernini and Caravaggio? To travel through time from Gothic, to Renaissance, to High Renaissance, to the Baroque with the Medici? Well, read on to see how we spent our first day in the Renaissance City of Fl
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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 
