Florence's Renaissance Giant: Michelangelo’s David
Pick up any Florence guidebook, and it urges you to visit the Accademia, one of the city’s great art museums, to see Michelangelo’s...
The Road to Italy
Until 2003, I had never set foot in Italy. Books enticed me to visit the Italian peninsula—and they ended up whisking me into a garden on...
Touring Florence: Keep Your Chin Up
On our first evening back in Florence, we had just left a restaurant on a narrow street in the Oltrarno, the neighborhood on the south...
Debut Blog Post: Falling in Love with Italy
Photo by Diana Dinverno An Italian Heart in my Cappuccino In September when I was in Florence, Italy, doing research for a writing...
