Neptune

Leave it to me to find the England in Italy.

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June 11th 2010
Florence We spent four hours at the Uffizi Museum today, a few blocks away from our apartment. I saw a portrait by Hans Holbein, Henry VIII's painter. He would travel around and paint portraits of women who Henry was considering as wives, and was the one that "embellished" Anne of Cleves. I know... Leave it to me to find the England in Italy. I would just like to say that I had m ... 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