Learn Italian, Lesson 9
Simple conversations, jobs, more present tense (andare), and the days of the week.
Category: Fleming
Back to the Future II: The Olympics
I haven’t paid much attention to the Olympics for years. It. has been a long time since the Games were a genuine amateur sport. All my life they have been big business that guaranteed endorsements and jobs to the winners. When the allowed professional basketball players in, it was a public declaration that they were giving up the pretense.
Back to the Future
I’ve been in 15th century Florence, to be precise, colloguing with Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola, Savonarola, Cosimo and Lorenzo de’ Medici, Machiavelli, and others. As a traveler in time and space, I was eager to share my thoughts on the American present, which for them is an unimaginably distant future.
Learn Italian, Lessons 5- 8
The present tense of verbs, vocabulary for getting around and talking about the weather.
History of Florence: The Initial Rise and Fall of the Medici
While the Ciompi were clashing with the Grassi, Archbishop Giovanni Visconti’s nephew, Bernabò Visconti (who had allied himself by marriage to Mastino II della Scala of Verona), was constructing a powerful base in Central Italy by conquering papal territory on the Tuscan border.
History of Florence: Feuds and Wars in the 14th Century
The Guelph elite might have regained power permanently had the various families been able to work together in harmony, but the Donati, Adimari, and Tosinghi were constantly at odds.
History of Florence: Guelfs and Ghibellines
Florence had always been close to Rome, and her relationship with the Papacy would be encouraged by the war which broke out between Florence and Ghibelline Pisa and then with Ghibelline Siena.
Learn Italian, Lesson 7
I am going forward on the assumption that everyone has received his copy of Living Lanugage.
History of Florence: Early Years
What we do know is the Florence was settled by Romans in the late Republic but was never as important as nearby Fiesole, much less Lucca or Pisa
Six Crises: The Ocean of Pigs
Rex and Dr. Fleming look back on the foreign policy/natural security blunders that have defined the regime
