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Five hundred years ago, on April 17, Giovanni da Verrazzano and his crew were the first Europeans to sail into the estuary of what is now New York Harbor. Under Verrazzano’s command, they first landed at Cape Fear in North Carolina in March of 1524...

For the past 30 years in late December, the Umbria Jazz Winter festival livens up the medieval hill town of Orvieto, bringing in the New Year with a musical blast of jazz, rock, and country western.  Musical events abound in the medieval...

In many ways, the second canto (chapter) of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is one of contrasts: light versus dark, slavery versus freedom, and courage versus fear. Toward the end of the first canto, Dante meets Virgil, who tells him the only way out of...

by Myra Robinson I have yet to hear my first cuckoo of the year, but in other respects everything is slowly coming back to life. The almond trees are in blossom on my favorite walk along the ridge of Monte Fasolo, and there are small green buds...