Ellen Wert

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On stage!

With two guitars (electric and acoustic), a double bass, great voices and an uncanny ability to nail the sounds of hit makers from the 1950s and 1960s, Alexander Woodbury, Valerio Fanciano and Cosimo Ravenni began playing in pubs in Florence as the Street Clerks in early 2007...   *GET MORE

ART + CULTURE

From CANTINA to LOGGIA

It's easy to miss many of Florence's most delightful treasures. Walk along via Porta Rossa, for example, looking in the shop windows, and the facade of the Palazzo Davanzati, built around 1450 for a family of wool merchants, will blend into the city's familiar background of dark

ART + CULTURE

A cautionary tale

Be good. Mind your parents. Appreciate the paradise that your home is. Or else you'll end up like the miserable souls in the netherworld. With Dante's Inferno as her guide, Virginia Jewiss has written a cautionary tale for children.   Although there's no missing the message of

COMMUNITY

Delight in the details

‘This little pig went to market…’ is the premise of Nancy Shroyer Howard’s engaging Mischief in Tuscany: Running Wild in a Famous Painting. When a Cinta Senese pig with an ...

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