Tuscany

The Midsummer Night’s Dream Movie Critique “The Midsummer Night’s Dream” was directed by Michael Hoffman and was set in Lazio, Tuscany, and at Cinecitta Studios, Rome, Italy. The film is a Romantic-Comedy. The film is about two men, Lysander and Demetrius, and two women, Helena and Hermia, and fairies, Titania and Oberon. The film starts with the Duke and his Fiancé about to get married. One of the Hermia’s father goes up to the Duke and the father wants Hermia to marry Demetrius who she does…

Endangered Language Ladin Danter nos baiunse ladin, deache chësc é nosc lingaz dla uma. Mo val’ iade ti dunse inće a nüsc ghesć le bëgnodü por ladin." This sentence, written in the Ladin language, literally means “We speak Ladin among ourselves because Ladin is our mother tongue.” 1dolomites. I have been lucky enough to visit Northern Italy several times in the last few years. I speak some Italian, and while visiting Lake Garda, I heard people speaking a different language then standard…

Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy and died on January 8, 1642. He was born to the parents Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia degli Ammannati. Galileo’s father was a lutenist, composer, and music theorist. Galileo was the oldest of six children, although only three only siblings lived through infantry. His family was part of nobility but was not rich. They moved to Florence, Italy in the early 1570’s. Never marrying, Galileo had three children with Marina…

completely silent, both physically and verbally? Well, it happened to me on a summer day back in 2014, crammed into the backseat of a Fiat northeast of Prague. Since I couldn’t communicate with the passengers and had just left a life-changing 10-days in Tuscany, I allowed myself to reflect on my life in greater detail. During this ninety minute, fast-paced ride, I concluded my life is an ironic journey, shaped positively by polar opposites. It’s the characteristics I have gained from these…

art to expand upon the history and culture of a people that inevitably incorporated itself into the Roman Empire. Known as Tyrrhenians to the Greeks, the Etruscans lived in Etruria between the Arno and Tiber rivers of Italy in what is now known as Tuscany (Who Were the Etruscans?). The economy was based on agriculture, trade with Carthage and the Greeks, and mining mineral resources. Around 700 BC, between the Arno…

History has a tendency of repeating itself. Norms and laws may change, but viewpoints tend to fluctuate between being optimistic and pessimistic. This can be traced throughout humanity, with some decades being notably prosperous and optimistic and others being much more difficult and pessimistic. However, there are two periods in humanity that can be compared to on many different aspects and topics, with one of those topics focusing on human nature and epistemology. More specifically, whether…

The Colosseum otherwise known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, started construction in 70 A.D. and took an estimated 10 years to complete, finishing in 80 A.D. The Colosseum served as a host for sporting events for the roman population. The two rulers accredited for the Colosseum were the two roman emperors, Vespasian and Titus (Vespasian’s son). Vespasian’s vision for the Colosseum was to build the greatest arena ever, seen in the Roman world. But how has this arena’s design stayed similar for…

features of Renaissance painting and sculpture reflect a desire to explore and portray the real world. Some famous artists included Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. About Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was born in Anchiano, Tuscany. Da Vinci had no education except basic reading, writing and math. He had a huge artistic ability so his father apprenticed him at the age 15 to the sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. In his 20s Leonardo was painting many sculptures and the…

After his abdication Napoleon was allowed to retain the title of Emperor, but only if he stayed on the Island of Elba, near the coast of Tuscany. Stephen Coote believes putting Napoleon on an island so close to Europe and lands he once dominated must have “created deep contempt and longing for an opportunity” to escape to try to restore his Empire. This opportunity arose only nine months…

What is beauty? In a classical sense beauty is something of perfection primarily with a strong connection towards math hence that everything beautiful was perfectly proportional and followed the golden ration of size and precision. The great Philosopher Plato believed that we find things beautiful when we unconsciously sense in them qualities we want such as gentleness, harmony, balance, peace, strength, and perfection. Michelangelo as well as Plato shared the same belief of what beauty was.…