EXPATS IN FLORENCE
Expats in Florence
Swietlan Kraczyna
From refugee camp to world famous artist
A Russian who was born in Poland and grew up in Germany and the United States, Swietlan Kraczyna was inspired to move to Florence by Masaccio’s murals. From humble beginnings, supporting a family on just 100 dollars a month in the …
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Guest star in Florence
The extravagant hats of Georgine Glaenzer
Among the many participants in the 19th Artigianato e Palazzo is a French artisan Georgine Glaenzer who makes very special hats. She calls herself the ‘creator of millinery sculptures’ will present her extravagant hats for the first time in the Corsini …
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Melbourne in Prato
Monash University?s Prato Centre
By now well established in Prato, Monash University’s Italian site, founded in 2001, serves more than 700 students a year, offering a wide range of academic programmes in humanities, law, art, design & architecture and business & economics. The choice of …
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Connecticut in Prato
The University of New Haven?s Prato campus
The University of New Haven established its first and only international campus in Prato in autumn 2012. With 35 students a semester, the university offers a changing programme of classes to give every New Haven student, no matter his or her …
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Sylvia Behrman
The Mud Angel who stayed
One does not often meet a Mud Angel, the many foreign students and Italians who came to Florence to help dig out the city, as well as salvage books, manuscripts and works of art, after Florence’s devastating flood of November 1966. …
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Boccaccio turns 700
From prodigal son to Renaissance man
2013 marks the 700th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Boccaccio, whose writing in the Italian vernacular helped herald the literature of Renaissance humanism. As famous as his name has become, his life and year of birth, 1313, are cloaked in …
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Kristina Grancaric
The international lifestyle of a social-media manager
Going to meet Kristina Grancaric in her office is an unusual experience: most days she sets up ‘office’ in a different restaurant or bar, where people drop in to see her and she reviews the place as part of her work …
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Alice Keppel
A royal road to Florence
The epitaph on her tombstone at the Cimitero degli Allori (Evangelical Cemetery of Laurels), just outside Florence, tells us ‘she was gay, unselfish, brave,’ but Alice Frederica Keppel had one other invaluable quality: she was discrete. This was to make her …
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Violet in Florence
St Mark's celebrates the life of Trefusis
by Mundy E. Walsh
From April 21 to 28, St. Mark’s Church is hosting an event-packed celebration of one of Florence’s most famous expatriates, Violet Trefusis.
Violet Trefusis, who was born in London in 1894, was a leading figure among les grandes animatrices …
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Ann Hepper
Box-maker extraordinaire
More than 30 years ago, Ann Hepper started creating boxes by hand from the thousands of postcards received from friends and relatives scattered across the world, and box-making soon became her greatest passion. Today, to make her signature craft boxes, each …
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Richard Sherwood
Pouring pints across the Boot
With its unparalleled and legendary wines, Italy is not the first place you’d think to enjoy a pint of Guinness or glass of Jameson Irish whiskey. However, right in piazza Santa Maria Novella, the eclectic cultural heritage of Ireland is only …
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The Scorpioni
The eccentric expats behind Tea with Mussolini
‘Why shouldn’t Mussolini have an empire? All the best people in Europe have empires.’ So affirms the imperious British expat Lady Hester Random (played by Maggie Smith) in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1999 semi-autobiographical film, Tea with Mussolini, to be screened at the …
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William Blacker
Italy, England and Transylvania: adventures of a free spirit
Polite and pensive, William Blacker seems the last person you would imagine to leave a comfortable life in England and go on a whim to live for eight years in a remote Transylvanian village. But that’s exactly what he did. Now …
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A royal revenge?
The story of a British lord, an Italian villa and an Egyptian pharaoh
If,
like me, you are a fan of the British costume drama series Downton Abbey, you were probably pleased to read in the newspapers
recently that the show has generated enough money to pay the 11.75 million
pounds so desperately needed for the repairs …
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Dejan Bogdanovic
The life of a painter in Florence
by Leah Eades
Although
there are many who dream of dropping everything and living through their art,
few actually take the plunge. Dejan Bogdanovic, however, is the embodiment of
that Florentine dream. Arriving in Florence from the former Yugoslavia on a
SACI scholarship more than 20 years ago, …
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013