by Penny | 19 May, 2012 | News, Social History, theatre, Tuscan gardens
18.5.12 Poor Filippo – possibly the worst birthday present ever! Imagine setting off to fetch your clients and finding your precious Mercedes mini-van up on bricks like this? This is his work for heavens sake and some pranksters think it is funny to steal and...
by Penny | 11 May, 2012 | Exhibitions, Music, News, Opera, Photography, Renaissance Art, Social History, theatre
11.5.12 St John the Baptist celebrations 2012 As patron saint of the City of Florence ever since the era of the Longobards, (ie way before the early Renaissance celebration shown above!) St John the Baptist’s Special Day of June 24th always goes out with a big...