Heritage: Lands that gave us famous Authors
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«I Come to Bring you to the Other Shore» – How the Greatest Italian Poet’s life is Mapped on tourist routs
The core of medieval Florence and more specifically the area between the church of Saint Martino and Piazza dei Donati, was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, after several studies and researches, the Municipal Administration ordered the building of a house to celebrate the place of birth of Dante.
Today, the building is the seat of the House-Museum of Dante, which was reopened to the public o...
With Dublin at Heart
More has been written about James Joyce than about Shakespeare. The eldest son of a spendthrift who brought his large family from prosperity to poverty without relinquishing his standards, Joyce was educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, one of the finest private schools in the country, until the money ran out. He was then offered a free place at Belvedere College in the centre of Dublin to continue his secondary education. He entered University College in 1898, having lost his Catho...
The Fair Country of Pygmalion
The tiny Hertfordshire village of Ayot St Lawrence is hidden away in the depths of the countryside, though only an hour or so away from the middle of London.
Shaw wrote that it was a 'twelfth-century village where the last thing of real importance that had happened was, perhaps, the Flood'. There are several suggested meanings for 'ayot': the most logical is that it means a 'gap' or an 'island' and even these days, when it rains heavily over the winter and the single-track approach roads flood...