Fourteen American high school students have been selected to study in Italy through the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA, in cooperation with New York City Department of Education.
This year, the annual Palazzo Strozzi High School Renaissance Award, which began in 2010, coincides with the Italian year of culture in the United States, and, for the first time, two schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District participated in the program.
The 14 winners of the competition, who attend public high schools in New York and Los Angeles, will spend a month studying the Renaissance at New York University’s Villa La Pietra campus in Florence, with visits to Venice, Milan and Rome.
As part of the selection process, the students researched and wrote essays on the Renaissance with a focus on libraries and problems relating to the dissemination of knowledge. Now, they will spend time in the places that, to date, they have only read about.
