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  Tis the season for StrawberriesHere in Athens walking through the market there are piles and piles of ripe strawberries begging to be grabbed by the handfuls. As a child my…

                           Michelozzo DiBartolommeo, or Michelozzo Michelozzo DiBartolommeo, Michelozzo also spelled Michelozzi, architect and sculptor, was most notable in the development of Florentine Renaissance architecture. Michelozzo acquired the skills of a bronze founder…

  It’s all Greek to meMy Southern grandmother taught me to always bring something for your hostess when attending a dinner. Here in Greece there is a similar tradition, that one…

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…

  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…

 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…

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…

Quattrocento:  Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio, son of miller, Petrol della Gondola and Marta “la zota” was born in the Padova, the “Saint’s City”, Padova, in 1508.  He worked in the city…

 Spaghetti: an old favorite Technorati Tags : pasta, tomatoes, spaghetti   https://www.marialiberati.com My sister's big birthday was yesterday. As the youngest in the family she has finally passed that milestone marker into adulthood…