Piazza della Signoria

Finding Florence / Missing Sienna / Protecting our Pockets in Pisa

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October 16th 2010
There is a litany of lousy prose that starts “It was a dark and dreary night…” Well, this Saturday started out as a dark and dreary morning. The weather appeared to be catching up with that we had gotten a taste of in Sicily, and were fortunately spared in Rome and Pompeii. We were early to assembly, and again were on the first bus leaving for Florence, which as will be seen, was much be ... 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