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Appreciation for the Arts

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January 9th 2018
Today before we entered the Uffizi, I was explaining to Hannah how I felt like I didn't appreciate art the way I should. I compared to it to watching the Olympics. While watching the Olympics, I am watching the best of the best competing against each other. It is expected of them to preform at such an impressive level that I cannot truly comprehend how talented they actually are. But if we were to ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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