Category Archives: English

Gino Bartali: An Icon of Sports and Humility

Posted on January 28, 2021 by babbityjean

The year was 1937.  Gino Bartali (1914 – 2000) won the Giro d’Italia for the second straight year.  He was Italy’s and Europe’s biggest sports idol.  By this time, Benito Mussolini had ruled Italy with violence and intimidation for 15 … Continue reading →

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Italian Renaissance Domes

Posted on January 14, 2021 by babbityjean

Filippo Brunelleschi’s Florentine Duomo has been an engineering marvel and mystery for more than 500 years.  How did the master goldsmith and sculptor create the largest masonry dome in existence?  It is an engineering feat that has not been accomplished … Continue reading →

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Cicero

Posted on January 7, 2021 by babbityjean

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, orator and politician.  His influence on the Latin language was immense: he wrote more than three-quarters of surviving Latin literature.  Petrarch’s discovery of Cicero’s letters is often … Continue reading →

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