Yip in April when we started posting October seemed a long way but now approaching late August it is not too far away! Catriona is getting her first passport and looks really grown up in the picture. While we are in the lakes as well as visiting the some of the other villages along the coast, Morven & I hope to go toVerona. Yip you guessed it the home of Romeo and Juliet.
Phil & Morven
Monday, August 21, 2006
600th anniversary of Leon Battista Alberti’s birth
"Mantua is joining festivities marking the 600th anniversary of Leon Battista Alberti’s birth with a major show taking place at the house of another Renaissance great, Andrea Mantegna.
Alberti is widely considered to be the embodiment of the universal ideals of Renaissance humanism and is, in many respects, the precursor of Leonardo da Vinci."
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