A New Digital Home for Personal Essays
Dear Readers, First, thank you for being here with me at Prayers & Piazzas! I launched this site twelve years ago as a place to share writings on the two most important things in my life: my family (prayers) and my love of all things Italian (piazzas). In that time, the site has attracted readers…
How the Ponte Vecchio Survived World War II
On a wartime night in August of 1944, the historic bridges of Florence were bombed, destroyed as German forces fled the city. Ponte Vecchio was the only bridge spared. Why would it not suffer the same fate as the other fallen bridges?
Leonardo da Vinci in Seven Stories
He left us master works such as The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. His intricate, ahead-of-his time thinking influenced the worlds of art, science and engineering. But at the heart of this Renaissance rock star was someone intensely human. 573 years after his birth, here are seven stories to celebrate the man behind the legendary…
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