Tuscan Convivium
Our next program abroad is scheduled to begin roughly, for Oct 16/17 and will last 7 days with the possibility of additional days in Rome.
Author: Thomas Fleming
History of Florence, I: Beginnings
The history of Florence, as rich in deeds of violence as in creative works of imagination, affords serious people much food for thought, not all of it of the pleasant sort that encourages optimism about human nature
Learn Italian Lesson 4
In this lesson we learn how to talk about things around the house, review definite article and the verb to be, and get introduced to some descriptive adjectives that should be immediately useful.
Siena III: The Legacy
But beyond commercial rivalry and the Guelph/Ghibelline feud, there is the fact that all these little Tuscan cities–especially Siena–were ferociously competitive, both internally and with rival cities. They competed not just for commercial domination and military might, but also for beauty.
The Great Debate at the End of the Universe
Before going to bed, I made the mistake of checking the news and found clips of “the debate.” I exhausted my vocbbulary of Americanisms drawn from Captain Billy’s Whizz Bang. Gee Whillikers. Holey Moley.
Learn Italian, Lesson 3
This may be the last time I list all the vocabulary of the LL. If your set has not arrived, be sure to concentrate on the vocabulary and grammar I have presented in 1-3, because then you will only need to breeze through these lessons in LL.
The Stoic Revolution….
I keep my FB account for a few reasons. I do occasionally get news of distant friends. Sometimes I can also share something from the Fleming Foundation, in the hope–usually vain–that it will attract a new subscriber–who feels our work is worth the quarter or fifty cents a day we charge.
Learn Italian 2
Italian has two genders, masculine and feminine. While words pertaining to male (uomo, ragazzo, fratello, dottore) are usually masculine and words pertaining to female (donna, moglie, ragazza, dottoressa) are feminine, these are the only cases where grammatical gender has anything to do with sexuality.
