So after a day and a half in Florence ( I am now convinced that one needs to spend at least a week in Florence to at just begin to see what there is to see) where we visited the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio (with the copy of the David, Neptune and a variety of otherContinue reading “Arrivederci Florence, Salve Assisi and a beautiful Basilica (but no pictures please)”
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Breakfast at a namesake
We will continue our marathon of the extended tour of the Duomo and its environs next post. Instead I will tell you about going a local pasticceria across the piazza from the Duomo and Baptistery which was in our family name. Scudieri is the original derivation of my last name Scudere. My great grandfather changedContinue reading “Breakfast at a namesake”
A visit to the Baptistery or “the scaffolding Gremlin strikes again”
So, before we totally leave the Duomo, though we will be back, I do have a one of more fresco that I think will be of interest. I cannot do this justice but hell is in the lower left of the painting (Left, in Italian, being the word “sinistra” (from which the word “sinister” isContinue reading “A visit to the Baptistery or “the scaffolding Gremlin strikes again””
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