Chigiana music academy, courtyard

Mellowing in Italy - Siena, Wednesday 2007 May 9

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May 9th 2007
I am writing this Thursday morning, because I was so tired last night that after dinner I just prepared for morning and went to sleep before 10:30. I was still asleep at the 7:00 wake-up call. As it happened, I was unusually early because somehow I missed that the excursion today is starting 45 minutes later than planned. “Swings and roundabouts”, as the British say. Before we left the hotel, ... 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