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		<title>The Art of Writing 2013 &#8211; great course &#8211; great group!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art of Writing delegates enjoying the Tuscan sunshine at the end of the 2013 Art of Writing course. Thanks again to everyone who worked so hard and contributed so much to make this Art of Writing Writers retreat a success. Jim and Lisa were terrific course tutors and the additional input from Dierdre, Catherine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The write stuff!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Art of Writing 2013 I believe that during our past week in the Casentino mountains with Lisa Clifford and James Friel during our Art of Writing writers retreat we learnt a lot about ourselves as well as about writing.  In one of our lessons on I was struck by our wonderful tutor, Jim Friel&#8217;s, comment that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Bocca al Lupo! E una punta di vista!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Bocca al Lupo !   What on earth is that all about? The phrase literally means in the Mouth of the Wolf  , and in usual Italian parlance it is widely used to offer &#8220;Good Luck&#8221; &#8211; the literal translation of which &#8220;Buona Fortuna&#8221; being believed locally to presage exactly the opposite! In this case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baccus and Ariadne &#8211; legends revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baccus and Ariadne &#8211; legends revisited! Combining two passions last week!  Painting and Opera &#8211; during my trip to the National Gallery in London to see the Saints Alive! exhibiiton - I took the opportunity to revisit the famous Titian painting of Baccus and Ariadne &#8211; just to get a different take on the version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saints Alive! What a great idea!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saints Alive! Reincarnation in 2013 &#8211; by Michael Landy The National Gallery in London must be very pleased that they chose Michael Landy as their Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist in residence, allowing him the luxury of time to create some original new art &#8211; and thus to introduce a new audience to the many Italian Renaissance religious paintings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Painting Workshop &#8211; Watercolour or Oil in a beautiful old palace in a walled village!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painting Workshop &#8211; watercolour or Oil in a beautiful old palace in a walled village near Naples &#8211; full of ancient history! see website &#8211; www.theartofpainting-san-agata-dei-goti.com &#160; &#160; September 17-24th 2013 – Painting in a Palazzo in San Agata dei Goti with Glynis Barnes Mellish Introducing a completely new venture – surprisingly not based in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Life and Times of Iris Origo &#8211; lecture in Florence by Katie Campbell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 22:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first disclaimer &#8211; this is not an attempt to completely rewrite Katie&#8217;s enjoyable presentation on Monday night &#8211; my hope is solely to stimulate readers sufficiently to find out more about this fascinating women and her extraordinary garden , shown below. Iris Origo was born in England to Anglo-Irish-American parents who were undeniably wealthy &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felines and Sealions in Santa Spirito</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 21:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felines and Sealions in Santa Spirito  There is a little museum in what was once the  refectory  of the Chiesa Santo Spirito. The building suffered a lot of WW2 war damage &#8211; and the oldest fresco on my Chronology of Last Suppers  , painted 1343- 1355 by  Andrea Orcagna,  was almost totally destroyed by a pile of unused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Year&#8217;s Festival of Culture for St John the Baptist &#8211; Patron Saint of Florence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what makes a patron saint a patron saint?- and why did Florence choose John the Baptist? And having changed patron saints and chosen St John the Baptist in the 1200&#8242;s  does he still have any relevance to modern day Florence? The image below by Jacopo del Sellaio shows St John against the Florentine skyline as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Cose Belle di Alberto Cozzi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 20:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florentine paper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le Cose Belle di Alberto Cozzi Another joyous session of paper marbling here in Florence &#8211; two very talented guests enjoyed a morning session with Riccardo Luci at the long running family business of Alberto Cozzi. &#160; The business uses marbled paper for blank book binding as well as for making the interiors and the [...]]]></description>
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