Roman Holiday VIrtual Book Tour
Roman Holiday and The Basic Art of Italian Cooking Virtual Book Tour If you are grimacing about the rising costs of airplane tickets , the value of the dollar in Europe then…
Italian Renaissance ..the beginning
Quattrocentro: Italian Renaissance Architecture The Beginning The word “renaissance” was derived from the Italian phrase la rinascita (meaning rebirth). This term was first seen in Vasari’s The Lives of the…
Ahhh. fresh lemons and peaches..oh my!!
I first had this experience visiting a friend and her family in Nevada. To accompany our breakfast cereals was a huge bowl of bursting ripe raspberries on the table. I…
May Day,old fashioned style..
May Day is here and it brings back memories of one of my first visits to Italy-many years ago..before the 'euro' and before the dawn of the shopping malls in Rome…
Leon Battista Alberti
Quattrocentro: Profile of Italian Renaissance Architect: Leon Battista Alberti Italian Renaissance Architect, Leon Battista Alberti was a native to Genoa, Italy. He was born in 1406. He began his artistic studies…
May Day and I am here in Greece
Today is May Day, the first of May. My grandmother as a young girl used to go picking new spring flowers with her sisters. They would then leave these bundled…