YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME!!

On May 1 each "viola’s" supporter had to say goodbye to the dreamt Uefa Cup finals, with a dramatic defeat of Fiorentina against Glasgow Rangers in the Artemio Franchi stadium.
After 210 minutes of agony, finished in a tie, Fiorentina suffered a humiliating 4-2 on penalties.
"The lads have shown they have a great spirit and this bitterness will pass. We deserved to get to the final, in two games we lacked a bit of luck." This is what Prandelli, the Fiorentina coach, said after the match.

Nevertheless, Fiorentina has a lot to do this season because they have to fight for the fourth place to qualify for the Champions League. Fiorentina has only a few points more than Milan.
About the game against the Rangers, the UEFA president Platini praised the players of

Fiorentina whit the coach for their sportsmanship, respect and hospitality: this because despite the Rangers passed the semi-finals, the club showed outstanding hospitality to thousands of Rangers supporters, including a lot of them without tickets.

Martina Goretti & Filippo Contardi

What will happen to our planet in the near future?

An article from “the Florentine” newspaper

Unfortunately everybody knows that pollution is endangering our planet , because lately the environmental conditions have worsened and the air is more and more polluted.
Mayor Domenici, Martini8 the regional president) and other local administrators have been officially indicted for failing to respect the environmental and to limit the air pollution. On May 6 Florence’s Public Prosecutors Giulio Monferini and Giuseppe Soresina laid charges against Florence and other provincial officials.
In the end 14 local officials have been accused, because none has respected the laws and the regular level of emission of pollution in the air. In fact they had to decrease the levels of the airborne pollutant PM10.
According to national and European law they must not exceed 50 micrometres a day for more than 35 days in any given year. Florence prosecutors believe that this condition was broken in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Domenici and Monferini say that they are satisfied about these data ,because even if the condition of Florence and the nearby area is not really good, they are doing their best to improve the situation.
A 2006 study conducted by Global Health Organization (Oms)revealed that if we reduce the smog level in the air of 40 percent, we can save 129 lives a year in Florence.

Paying the price for pollution

On 6 May , Florence’s Public Prosecutor Giulio Monferini and Giuseppe Soresina have officialy indicted the Mayor, the President of Tuscan Region and other provincial officials for negligence in carrying out their duty to decrase the levels of airborne pollution. The court date has been set for October 3 2008.

Florence Prosecutor’s belive that the regolation of the smog was infringed in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The accused officials defend theirself saying that they did everything possible for decrasing the phenomenon of the airbone pollution.

The mayor Domenici commented that he don’t looking forward the day of the courtroom for denfending himself from the “ridicolous and unfounded accusation”.

A 2006 study revealed that a decreasing of 40% of the smog levels, could save 129 lives a year in Florence.

Taiti Leonardo, Santoni Roberto

STUDY ABROAD!!!!

The key to a successful study abroad experience is being able to use your imagination.
You have to imagine that you aren't here for only six months or five weeks but the new city is your new home.
A good mode to prepare for study abroad is to listen to others who have been abroad before and what they wish they have done. When outland students arrive in Italy, they desire to involve in the Italian community, but becoming involved in the community is complicated because there is a new langauge and a new set of social customs. However, it's possible with a lot of imagination. Foreign students have to meet a group of outside of their campus and devote themself to their preferite activities and hobbies.
The Italians have a bad belief on American students because at first consider them as "loud, lewd, drunk American" so the experience of study abroad is an excellent opportunity to help refute this stereotype.
When you study abroad, everything is new and it is therefore the perfect opportunity to do something you've never done, to try something completely new.

Valentina Bacherini

RACING THROUGH MUGELLO

The International Mugello Racetrack is placed in the gorgerous hills of Tuscany, near the city of Scarperia.It is owned and operated by Ferrari, and it is also used as a testing facility for Ferrari’s Formula 1 team. The racetrack is long 5245 meters and, over the course of the year, it is opened for about 300 days, hosting various activities and events, expecilly motocycles and cars’ races. The Mugello circuit is one of the most safety in Europe, so there are no more than one fatality each season. However, what really makes the Mugello Racetrack so special is its location. It is often described as a valley for sports, but people are working to create a space that can host many events without being exclusive to racing: they hope that, although many visitators might think Florence is all Tuscany has to offer, people will understand that there is more.

BY GIULIA COVACCI

You win some, you lose some...

The dream of UEFA cup final, which could give Fiorentina the first European Cup, is nuanced in a moment on the evening of May 1st at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence.

The "Viola", although they deserved to win the game for the opportunities created and good game of the team, were exceeded on penalties 4-2 by Rengers Glasgow (in the first game(l'andata) the score had remained on 0-0).
So the Rengers will play the final with the Zenit St Petersburg, which has eliminated in the semifinals Bayern Monaco.
"The lads have shown they have a great spirit and this bitterness will pass...We deserved to get to the final, in two games we lacked a bit of luck",Cesare Prandelli, Fiorentina coach, told reporters.
But the season of Viola is not yet over: there is to defend the fourth place, which allows the passage into the Champions League in next football season, from attacks of AC Milan.
Concerning the semifinal with Rengers, the president of UEFA Michel Platini has praised the players of Fiorentina for their sportsmanship and the city of Florence for its hospitality.
Indeed, the Florentine club and the city of Florence have sold many tickets to Scottish guests, have provided food, entertainment and public viewing of the match available outside the Artemio Franchi stadium.

by Andrea Vagnoli and Mauro Paradisi

MAY IS FOR WINE LOVERS!!!

During May in Tuscany you can enjoy at two most delightful events: Alla Corte del Vino and Cantine Aperte.
In the Chianti hills, exactly in the garden of Villa Corsini, a lot of wineries show their best at "Alla Corte del Vino". This event offers a possibility to know anew labels of the best wineries of Tuscany. Besides, you can buy the wine you’ve just tasted: on entrance the visitors can indicate what and how much they would like to buy.

The other event is "Cantine Aperte": last year over four millions people visited the country’s wineries; they throw open their doors and showed facilities of production. For a great "Cantine Aperte" day in Tuscany organize a group of friends, download a list of open cellars and plane your trip. But for a safe trip back you must choose a driver who prefers viewing Tuscany more than drinking wine.
During Cantine Aperte if you need any help or if you find something worth, you can contact the journalist Marco Badiani at his email: m.badiani@theflorentine.net.

Sara Tassi

" Taxman tells all"

During the past days, italian citizens were able to see how much their friends and everyone else declared as taxable income. Tax office published the tax records of some 38 million italians for the 2005 fiscal year on its own official website.
Obviously, the site crashed down few hours later. Many people whined about "violation of privacy rules", but even after the suspension of the site, this information were circulating on the net via peer-to-peer. After this unusual occurence there were a lot of legal proceedings against the tax office. Consumer assiciation Codacons asker a compensation of 52€ for each italian whose tax declaration was made public.
the centre-left government said that this was sust a way to fight tax evasion, so common in our country. That was sust for "trasparency". How ever, politicians from centre-right accused Prodi of making a last vengeful move before leaving office.
Probably that was really a privacy violation, but in the end who had a right behaviour has nothing to fear of.........

Fabio Bartolozzi Mirko Risaliti

Diplomary, Italian style

Lisa Kaborycha's article takes cue from the personal relations among powerful people to analyze the exchange of letters between Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino and Cosimo I dè Medici, Duke of Tuscany.

The diplomacy that those man carried out is even utilize in the modern politics; gestures extremely friendly hide the great political activities to smooth differences, from that moment we had seen great political adverses exchange gift and kindness but often we don't know the exact words passed between them, while, from the Medici archives, a serie of letters comes out to clarify the real relation among those shrewdest politicians.

At first I wont remember who were Guidobaldo II and Cosimo I: they had many things is common, they were contemporary and became sovereign both very young after the violent died of their predecessors at the top of two bordered states they were at the world political center in a period caratterized by the Spanish occupation of Italy and by the Roman's Pope power, besides affronting the foreign affairs they must affront internal plotting; expecially in Florence many cityzen looked back nostalgically to their lost repubblic, one of them was Strozzi politically supported by the Duke of Urbino; also the Guidobaldo's home politics navigated in dangerous waters infact the citizens tried of taxes and constant war and the papacy had its eye on the state to repossess the territory.

On the letters wrote each other the two political men, over the discussions of banditism and appeals of justice their corrispondence is full of friendly gestures. They sent, each other , small and great gifts from cheeses to leons to rimedys for kidney stones.

There are many letters of congration on the marriages of those children, and births of grandchildren, but there are also many touching letters of condolences.

The Duke of Urbino takes frequent wrote relations with his mother-in-law, Caterina Cibo, who lived at the Florentine's court, telling her about military developments.

The Duke used his mother in law as his spokesman to Cosimo I, infact the two rivals never been on open personal conflict to not compromise the well-crafted alliance.

They worked behind to smooth their contrasts .

The gift, the loving letters were, and today are, gestures carefully orchestrated; since five centuries this way to diplomacy is still actual.

Waiting summer..

This schoolyear has been very very very hard,but finally we're coming to the end of our third year in this school. We hope to begin the fourth one all together,because in this year we have become a united group!
We wish you a good summer!!
Hello

fili,gre,andre,franci,mauro,marty

The end of school is near!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the 3B hope to meet themself again!!!!
P.S. Profe doesn't suspend Paradisi

The monkey Bleach used to wash other's coat, when suddenly the water went off!
It was scared, it couldn't be happy (potter) anymore...XD [lol]

School's end!

Ledies and gentlemen we are Giulia e Miki!
We are at the end of the year... WOW!!!
Giulia: "Miki, will you pass the year??"
Miki: "I hope so, otherwise I kill my self!!"
Giulia: "Miki: NO!!!!!"
Miki: "Of course, I was jocking! I won't do it!! -The Beeeeeeeeeeoulf!"
Bye bye!!! We will meet next year!!! Goog holiday!!!
By Giuly e Miky

End of the school

Hy...this is one of the last English's lesson...we are at the end of this year and I'm happy for this...but I'm sorry for this because this year I've met new friends that this year is the last...but I'm sure that this friendship won't end...
For me... I need a stop to the studio...so...bye bye...see you next year!!!

Solar storm

from the homonymous article in the Florentine, 20th March 2008.

Recently in Florence there have been heated debates over a newly approved energy plan that would allow the installation of solar and photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the city centre. The panels must follow the roof’s inclination, and alternative energy paneling is now obligatory on new buildings and on those under renovation, with at least one kilowatt of power.
But the council for historic and environmental preservation opposes the move, saying that the historical landscape of the city would be ruined; Vincenzo Vaccaro, architect and civil servant, said that “we cannot change the face of a city that attracts millions of tourists from all over the world”.
However, the urban roofscape is already teeming with antennae, signal repeaters and steel towers for heating and air conditioning systems; these objects visually and aesthetically detract from the important monuments in the central core, like the Duomo and Orsanmichele. Vaccaro denies that these rooftop apparatus have been authorized, but for the council they don’t need to be removed.

Simone Giuntini

"No place to hide!"

Italy has money buried in its back yard.
There are an international
scandal, 400 people and firms suspected of tax evasion. Although
Italy's finance police haven't released the list of those under
investigation yet.
The suspect allegedly used foreign citizens and firms
to hide financial transaction in Liechtenstein's banks and trusts. In
light of the upcoming elections, politicians of all parties are
calling candidates implicated in the affair to be investigated. The
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has identified
Liechtenstein, alongside Andorra and Monaco, as European states that
are "uncooperative tax havens".

Fabio Bartolozzi - Mirko Risaliti

Scoppio del Carro

Every years on Easter Sunday, the Florentines celebrate the “Scoppio del carro”, dedicated to the first soldier, called Pazzino de’Pazzi, who climbed the Jerusalem walls during the first crusade.

For his bravery his commander gave him a piece of stone from the Holy Sepulchre.

After his return to Florence, he used the stone to start a “holy fire” during the Holy Week.

The fire was carried throughout in the city and from this moment it was used as a religious symbol.

Around 1300 the florentines began to buid a cart, highly decorated, for trasporting the flame.

In this days the florentines dressed traditional costumes and lead the cart in the square.

Then a colombina holding an olive branch, after the explosion of the cart, had to cross the square.

This is an happy moment while the people can enjoy with firecracker.

A perfect explosion corrispond to a positive years.

For more info visit www.comune.fi.it

Roberto Santoni, Leonardo Taiti

What did the Italians choose this time?

Recent elections in our country moved the ideals of the Italian people towards two main parties.
Italians chose as head of government Silvio Berlusconi, who won about 47 percent in both Houses of Parliament. Berlusconi promises to fight against some problems like inflation, criminality and immigration.

On the other hand, the centre-left party is the second one concerning the number of votes; Italy of Values, headed by Antonio Di Pietro, is fifth in the standing.

The Left, whose leader is Walter Veltroni, has to try to strengthen its opposition, also by encouraging the smaller parties to follow them.

Filippo Contardi - Martina Goretti

FLAMES IN FLORENCE

From a homonymous article in the "Florentine".


April in Florence closes with a huge budget: about sixty means (scooters and cars) damaged and destroyed in several pyres in the streets of the city, but the arsonists have not only limited to that.

A charred structure is all that remains at one of the city’s largest discos, Meccanò.
The historic late-night venue, located in the Cascine park and overlooking the Arno river, is burned the night of April 15, a few weeks before the beginning of summer season.
The perpetrators broke into the local at night and set fire to 20 litres of petrol on the dance floor, causing serious damage.
All the inside of disco was carbonized and destroyed by the flames.

The security forces, to find the responsible of the fire (certainly arson), have checked that none of the five owners of the local had received threats and have started investigations both scientific and territorial.
The fire is being investigated by anti-mafia and, simultaneously, local police are investigating whether one of Meccanò's business competitors was involved.

by Andrea Vagnoli and Mauro Paradisi

Do you want to go house-hunting in Italy?

From Linda Falcone’s article for the newspaper Florentine..

Have you ever tried house-hunting in your country? It isn’t easier in Italy, because there aren’t many big and clean places!
Nowadays a lot of young people search for a flat to share with others guys or student friends: there are agencies that help you to find the right flat for you even if it might not always be the house you are looking for.
A young girl has described her experience so that we can better understand what it is all about. Certainly she was not interested in luxurious houses, but this was not the problem…
When she arrived to the house, everything seemed perfect but when she met the agent, she changed her opinion: he explained that three people had lived in the house before, but it definitely wasn’t her dream house :there were a lot of fuzzy bats, hanging upside-down in the wardrobe and there was only a window!!! So..it looked like an old warehouse!
When the girl went back to her aunt’s house, and asked her if she could put her up for some more days, she was playing solitaire and wasn’t too worried for her, even if her niece had visited two houses and she still hadn’t found something she really liked!
She had agreed to host her niece, because she knew what it was like to be a single woman, but Linda couldn’t stand staying in her house so long.
The following morning, her aunt went into her niece’s bedroom and she gave her a bundle. She said that was for her dowry but she wanted Linda to have it in that moment.
Linda was a bit worried about that, but, when she unfolded the tablecloth and found it strewn with lotus flowers and exotic birds, she thanked her aunt Meri for the present.
Her aunt told her that she would need the tablecloth back when she would find her own house.
In that moment, Linda realised that someday soon her home would come but that she could live in her aunt’s house until then.

Greta Perini e Giulia Covacci

Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci was war correspondent, writer, journalisty and lived and worked in a world of men. She wrote passionate poems to Alekos Panaguils, her companion and one great love, with her beloved typewriter and told stories of hardships, death and the misery of women's conditions.

The city of Florence and the province of Tuscany pay homage to her with an exhibit in Palazzo Medici Riccardi and Palazzo Panciatichi.

The exposition was a journey trough one woman's life and her more important events during the thentieth century. In a part of Palazzo Medici Riccardi there are her family story and testimonials by journalists, politicians and friends, as Fallaci's books, such as "Insciallah" and "The Rage and the Pride", which are contextualized by letters, pictures, films that demonstrate her tenacy and energy, were represented in Palazzo Panciatichi.

Fallaci died on September 15 2006 in a Florence clinic and that day was marked by an international outpouring of love and affection from everyone.

Valentina Bacherini

Goodbye wine?

from The Florentine, 20th March 2008

Now the fraud involved not only politicians but also an old friend of ours: the wine.
A Tuscany's important wine producers, the Marchesi de' Frescobaldi, was officialy indicted for allegedly blending indigenous greapes grown. Investigators allege that from 1999 to 2003 enologists used a higher percentage of grapes from southern Italy than is legally acceptable in some of the wines produced.
Even if the judgment has been postponed, this  case have stired up the public awarenes. Lamberto Frescobaldi, the managing director of his family's estates in Tuscany, said that their society "have done nothing wrong", supporting that they have collaborate with the investigators right from the start of investigations.

Federico Mazzinghi

For love of the game

from the homonymous article in the Florentine, 30th April 2008.

In Italy baseball is an almost unknown sport, so only a few people know about the existence of a baseball diamond in Florence, hidden by the shadow of the Fiorentina soccer stadium.
In this place, every Tuesday and Thursday, Lee Foust, an Italian literature teacher at California State’s Campus in Florence, and his boys, ages 8 to 11, play this funny sport. In Tuscany there are 15 teams in the Ragazzi division, and they play games every Sunday.
But in Florence there isn’t only this team, because there’s the Fiorentina baseball team, too. Its players are between the ages of 18 and 35, but unlike the more famous Fiorentina’s football players they don’t play for job, but for hobby, and they aren’t paid so much; they wear red and black instead of purple, too. Fiorentina is one of the best Italian teams, and now it plays in Serie B. For Nicola Bellomo, Fiorentina’s pitching coach, Italian kids don’t like so much baseball because there are few Italian baseball stars to emulate, so is nearly impossible for baseball to become a popular game.
However, Fiorentina baseball team is content playing the game they love in the shadows of the football stadium, cheered by their few, but good, fans.

Simone Giuntini

Who was Franca Viola?

Maybe you, like me, have never known about Franca Viola, an international lawyer who wrote an article on Franca's case published on The Florentine on 30th April 2008. I have gone deep into her story.

Franca was a very beautiful 17 years old girl from Alcamo (Sicily) when, on December the 26 1965, was raped by Filippo Melodia.

For our mentality an abduction is unthinkable, but in the Sicily of those years wasn't an unusually pratice. The so called Fuitina (that means elopement) were often encouraged by some pooer families who couldn't afford dowries for their doughters, so, after an absence of few days from home, the couple had a rehabilitating marriage for saving the girl's honor.

Franca's case, like many others, wasn't a love case, but a case of violence. Franca had repeatedly rebuffed Filippo's advances so he, with the complicity of 12 friends, kept her secluted for more than a week. In that moment Franca hadn't many chance: she should have married her abductor or should be forever a shameless hussy without possibility for a normal life.

All this was possible because an article of the Criminal Code, abrogated in 1980, considered sexual violence an offonce against moral and not against the person; this means that the sentences for those crimes were very mild and if there was a marriage between the parts the crime come down.

Franca rebelled against all this and, with her father's help, she denounced her kidnappers that were arrested. During the trial the defence did everything to discredit Franca, but the judges refused to believe it. Melodia was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment and only in the 1978 he went out of the prison, after only 2 years he was killed in a mafia's execution.

The story of Franca moved a great debate throughout Italy on the woman's role in the society.

She led her life, married her sweetheart with whom she had three children and today Franca is a grandmother that still lives in Alcamo and she always believs that it wasn't courage, she only did what she felt listening to her heart; so she trasformed the Italian society and many other women could say no.

This incredible story become a film directed by Damiano Damiani " The Most Beautiful Wife" turning Franca in to a femminist icon but she is only a real woman.

Lia Fabbri

tie, tie...more ties!

Guardate un po' cosa hanno pensato di fare i guys della 3B!
e non è tutto...hanno fatto anche questo:

Ora attendiamo tutti con ansia la risposta delle chicks! E che sia all'altezza....!:)

A SOON-TO-BE LOST ART?

Florence is probably losing one of its most particular forms of street and religious art, made by the madonnari, who decorate pavements with Virgin Mary’s images.

Madonnari began as itinerant folk artists, which used to paint their sacred images during religious festivals all around Italy. Giotto is told to be the first madonnaro, followed by Cimabue.
Modern madonnari only copy some masterworks in lots of streets in the city centre.
The Florence municipal district hasn’t already made the authorization which should allow them to paint on the pavement of Via Calimala. After this failure, the spokesman for the International Madonnari Association, Claudio Sgobino, chained himself in Piazza Signoria and proclaimed that he would have gone on a hunger strike until the commune had finished its authorization.
Moreover, their art’s going to become too much expensive for them: in fact they will have to pay, for the year 2008, about 225 percent more than in 2007.
Madonnari obviously don’t agree with these terms because they say they should be free, they don’t like academy or galleries, they’re self-taught, so they should need to practise their art without paying anything.
Anyway, Sgobino says he will continue to fight Florence administration because it’s said to “limit the creation of art and freedom of artists in the city”.

Filippo Contardi - Martina Goretti

THE TRAVELING WEEKLY MARKET

A journalist writes about his hobby: travelling market

In most italian cities the travelling market arrives once or twice a week and it offers a wide range of good, but the substance is clothes new and used. It's problably you don't find every time a new items. The prieces are cheaper than shops and the lowest-lost comes from China. The USA and Germany can't compete with variety of selection and quality you find in iItaly, so you soon learn the difference between labels that say "Made in Italy" and those that declare "Styled in Italy".
Used clothes are collected for charitable purposes but some pieces have been rejected because they have defects and a lot of clothes come from dry cleaners because the ownver doesn't remember them.
The inventory is made up of garments out of style, the size frequently are dismarked and the vendor can give a good extimate of size.
The facilities for trying clothes are limited and you can't return what you buy.
The clothes of the market are excelent gifts for your friends expecially for their quality and prices.
But in the curb there are the pickpockets so people must keep their money in a safe place.
The monthly thrift shop, which hold the first Wednesday morning, can be compares with the weekly market.

Valentina Bacherini
Sara Tassi

Who's coming to do shopping with me?

From Bob Nordvall’s article of newspaper “The Florentine”

There are people who say that they are not keen on shopping, but…is it true? I don’t think so!
Our society has a huge number of shopping centres or markets, where we can find a lot of items from food to jewelleries. In a lot of Italian cities, once or twice every week, travelling markets are held: for example, in Florence you can find one at Cascine Park on Tuesday where a wide range of brand or second-hand items are on sale.
The travelling market is a very important centre for all people, because it represents a very cheap way for doing shopping: an important thing is that the stalls tend to enrich their range of items and they try to keep prices low. Usually cheap goods come from China, but when there are some clothes or other items that are made in Italy, the sellers warn the buyers about it. Even if thrift shops and Salvation Army stores exist in the USA, certainly they don't offer the quality and the wide choice you can find in Italy.
At this time nobody wonders where the clothes came from. Many people think that all clothes, shoes and other goods come from the cheap production, but they are wrong: infact most clothes come from important or famous shops, which usually sell brand items. The owners of these stores decide to send their faulty goods to the travelling market, but they usually have very small defects such as a slightly clearer colour than the original item.
It may also happen that something is smaller or larger than usual, but as you pay much less for these clothes, the sellers won’t refund you or change the item if you decide to return it. However you can ask for a tailor’s help!
Some of the goods that are sold in these markets have a label, where we can find the brand or the origin of that garment: some of them say “Made in Italy” , others “ Styled in Italy and others say “ Imported producing” limiting the know-how of the buyer’s market.
Certainly nobody has ever questioned the quality of these travelling markets: the material is very good and sometimes it is difficult to recognize the genuine item from the fake one (even if a specialist eye knows how to do it). However for lots of people it’s not important, because they are interested in buying something nice and they do not mind the labels!
An important warning ,however, is : when you go shopping in a travelling market keep your money in a safe place, because mugging is a real danger here!
In spite of that, the travelling market is an amusing and interesting place, where you can buy neraly everything and discover new things that you never see in other places!

SOLAR STORM

From an article of newspaper “THE FLORENTINE”.


The Florence skyline may soon change for the better, but this also depends on what you ask.

Administrators and local officials have recently designed and approved a new municipal energy plan which would allow florentine citizens to install solar and photovoltaic panels on the roofs of buildings in the city centre.
The installation of alternative energy paneling will be obligatory on new buildings and those under renovation.

Although the dispute is in its beginnings, the prospect of going greener seems more and more improbable, because the coucil for historical and environmental preservation opposes this move.
With them there is also the architect and civil servant Vincenzo Vaccaro claiming that it would ruin the historic landscape of the historical center and they couldn't change the face of a city that attracts millions of tourists.
Moreover they argue that the addition of solar panels with the already many things that infest the roofs of the historic center (TV and parabolic antennae, air conditioning systems and signal reppeaters) detracts visually and aesthetically the Florentine monuments, like the Duomo.

by Andrea Vagnoli and Mauro Paradisi

THE TRAVELING WEEKLY MARKET

In most Italin cities, the traveling market arrives once or twice a week.
The markets offer a wide range of goods: from cosmetics to shoes, from false jewelry to gadgets, from fish to vegetables.However, the substance of the market is clothes: new and used.
The stalls selling new clothing tend to specialize in a few types of garments and the inventory tend to be constant for some weeks or months, but prices also are usually stable!Often the lowest-cost merchandise is from China, even if there are cheap Italian garments too.
In traveling markets there are also used clothes; their inventory changes weekly.Where do theese clothes come from?Some of them come from various groups that collect them for charitable purposes and sell lots to market vendors. Others are pieces rejected by stores or individuals because they have difects, others come from dry cleaners where the owner didn’t redeem them. Most of the inventory is made up of graments discarded because they are no longer on the cutting edge of style.
Not infrequently, clothes’ sizes are mismarked, but the vendor can always give you a good estimate of the size; the facilieties for trying on clothes are usually limited ar noneexistent and you cannot return what you buy from these sellers, even if prices are so low, that you can stay to the risk!
In markets there are also many counterfeit namebrand clothing.Sophisticated buyers probably don’t like this fact, but I think that, if you likes a thing, it doesn’t matter if it is real or not.
An important warning is that, in markets, there are many pickpockets, so you have to keep money in a safe place.

By Giulia Covacci

WHY DON'T YOU ADOPT A PARK?!

from the newspaper “THE FLORENTINE”


People live in Florence, can now put their green thumbs to work in the many public parks located into the city. Palazzo Vecchio recently passed a law allowing people the opportunity to donate time money or labour to maintaining the city’s gardens and parks. Florence boasts actually over 300 public gardens and 30 parks. Palazzo Vecchio plans to make a public announcement before May 2008, inviting interested people to adopt a park in the city. Why don’t YOU adopt a park?!
francesco viliani

Never say never

At the Rome's Stadio Flaminio on March 16 Italian rugby team had his first win at the RBS Six N ations rugby tournament with a 23-20 success over Scotland thanks to a last minute goal by fullback Andrea Marcato.

The South African coach Malled has had entusiastic words for his Italian team although the squad finished in last positions because they won the match with heart and great will to win, and all this was very impourtant for the staff not only for the players, and because the players never stopped working for all five matchs although the deep defeats.

It was a very short article, but for me very interesting. The Italian rugby team had win a match in the Six Nations race for the first time he had not taken the wooden spoon (a prise for the never winner).

There are many people that love a sport and work hard for his dream; sometimes their dreams become realty, this is the story of the Italian team.

As we know well there isn't attention for sports that not move economic interests, media don't evidence them and is very difficoult for common people to know them.

Sports like swimming, skating or athletics obtain television spaces only in rathers occasions like Olimpiadi or mondial championcips.

Rugby isn't a popoular sport in Italy, but netherless, it is very interesting and many young people love it for his force and his rigid roules.

Lia Fabbri

The Globe Theatre

Elizabethan permanente theatres were circular or octagonal.
Whitin the outer walls there were tiers of ROOFED GALLERIES and the YARD where the poors stood. The STAGE jutted out into the yard so that when the playhouse was full, the players were surrounded on three sides.
At the rear of the stage there was a TIRING HOUSE where the actors changed themselves.
There were no STAGE CURTAINS.

(This is the Globe Theatre in a contemporary printing)

Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed at the Globe that has been reconstructed and can be visited today.

The origins of the English theatre

The first plays, closely linked to the main Christian celebrations, took place in churches.

When they moved in other places Latin was replaced with English and they were no more played by the clergy but by normal people: this was the birth of the English theatre, between the 13^th and the 15^th centuries.

The subjects of these performances, called Miracle Plays, were Biblical histories played on movable stage wagons moving in the city, called pageants, which usually stopped in the principal places like the market place or the town hall. There were several pageants at the same time in the city, and each one was a section of the complete story: so people used to move from one pageant to another.

Miracle Plays evolved into the Morality Plays, whose characters weren’t taken from the Bible but they were personification of human vices and virtues.

At the end of the 15^th century were acted, usually by a small acting company at a lord’s house, short plays called Interludes that combined serious and comic elements. Their main technical expedients were the disguise and the vice.

Simone Giuntini

The origins of the Theatre in England

The origins of the Theatre in England are linked to religious celebration and the performance took place in the nave of the church. During the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries Latin was replaced with English and people took the place of monks and priests in these performances, so-called “Miracle Plays”.
The subjects of Miracle Plays were stories from the Bible and they were performed on movable stage wagons called pageants .These pageants were open on all sides; people used to stop in front of a pageant to watch an episode they wanted to see.

The next development in drama were the “Morality Plays”, whose characters were not taken from the Bible but they were personifications of human vices and virtues. At the end of the 15th century started to be used the word “Interlude” referring to a short play usually performed at a lord’s house, that tried to combine serious and comic elements.

by Mauro Paradisi

The theatre in England

Originally the theatre in England was linked to religious celebrations, mainly about Christian events, and the performances took places within churches but later they moved to different places. T
his manifested the fact that Latin was replaced with English and as a result there were no monks to make these performances but people.
During this period, about the 13th 14th 15th centuries, born the famous “Miracle plays” that gave a dramatic profile to the entire story of the Bible. This was the most important form that characterises the Medieval Drama.
The “Miracle Plays” were staged by members of the trade guilds and they performed on movable stage wagons called pageants, which turned around the city and used to stop at some places where the people could watch the stage they wanted to see.
The “Morality Plays” was another important form of theatre. The characters of this kind of form were personifications of human vices and virtues, so they weren’t Biblical characters.
The “interludes” were born about at the end of the 15th century: they were a kind of short play that used to be performed by a small acting company at a lord’s house; the aim was to combine elements comic and serious.

Martina Goretti

English theatre

The origins of the English theatre are linked to religious celebrations especially Christian events.
In the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, these performances were set in the nave of the church at first, but then they were moved elsewhere and English substituted Latin.
These, called Miracle Plays, had Biblical theme and characters and were staged by members of the guilds, who acted on movable stage wagons called pageants, which stopped in a lot of places of town.

The next development were the Morality Plays, which were the personifications of human vices and virtues and represented psycological interpretation of characters who weren't taken from the Bible. At the end of 15th century Interludes born, which were short plays that combined serious and comic elements and the "actors" acted at lord's house.

Valentina Bacherini

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a popular English hero and he is painted like a man known for robbing the rich to provide for the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny.

His place of birth was apparently Loxley in South Yorkshire, while it is assumed that Robin Hood is buried in the monastery of Kirklees.
Probably he lived between the 12th and 13th century and he was the result of the merger of a really existed character (a noble Saxon revoked or a bandit) with the legends of a god of a forest.
Currently, in the modern version of the legend, he is imagined as a generous outlaw that is clever in the arch.

His first appearance in a manuscript is in "Piers Plowman" by William Langland in 1377.
The first historical mention of Robin Hood is in a movement of the “Scottish Cronicon", written in part by John Fordun between 1377 and 1384 and partly by his pupil Wlater Bower, more or less in 1450, which modified and integrated the work of his master.
In modern versions of the legend, Robin Hood takes refuge in Sherwood Forest in the county of Nottinghamshire.
The original ballads speak to us instead of Barnsdale, about 50 miles north of Sherwood, in the county of Yorkshire. One of Nottinghamshire's biggest tourist attractions is the Major Oak, a tree that local folklore claims was the home of the legendary outlaw.
In these ballads, friends of Robin are: Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, Much the son of Miller and Little John.
The films and TV series dedicated to the legendary hero are very numerous, like "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"(1991) by Kevin Reynolds and "The Adventures of Robin Hood"(1938) by Michael Curtiz.

Andrea Vagnoli

The medieval drama

The origin of the theatre in England is linked to religious events especially for commemorating Christian events. Those representation gave dramatic shape to the whole story of the Bible and characters. At first they were set in the church, but they were soon moved elsewhere. These performances were called Miracle Plays and were acted in English because Latin was replaced in 13th century. Miracle Plays were staged by members of the guilds and were performed on movable stage called pageant which moved from town; these pageants were open an all sides, and they are the first from of moving theatre. The next development in drama were the Morality Plays, whose characters didn’t take from the Bible, but were the personification of human vices and virtues. In the 15th century the word Interlude was referred to short play, where were combined serious and comic elements and which used the disguise and witty word games.

Sara Tassi

Robin Hood...

“Robin Hood Tales” is a very famous collection of ballad that the talks about a brave man and his faithful group of friends, who fight against the rich cruel people to help the poor. His first apparition in a manuscript is in William Langland’s “Piers Plowman” in 1377. These ballads are full of different and magic places, passion, adventures and engaging duels. One of the most famous lines are “the meeting with Little Jhon”,
Here there’s some lines of it:

“When Robin Hood was about twenty years old, With a hey down down and a down He happened to meet Little John, A jolly brisk blade, right fit for the trade, For he was a lusty young man”.

And

“Tho he was calld Little, his limbs they were large, And his stature was seven foot high; Where-ever he came, they quak’d at his name, For soon he would make them to fly.”

Today we have also lot of movies about “Robin Hood”, the most famous is “Robin Hood: Prince of thieves” of 1991 with Kevin Kostner, but I want to remember also the funny parody “Robin Hood a man in tights” of 1993, directed by Mel Brooks.


Francesco Viliani

English literature and the origin of the theatre

English literature and the origin of the theatre

English literature originated in 650 AD and greatly developed into different forms and genres.
In the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries the English theatre was born and developed: its origin was linked to religious celebrations especially those commemorating great Christian events.
In this time these performances took place in the nave of the church, but later they also moved to other places. This change marked the replacement of Latin with English and consequently people took the place of monks and priests in these performances.

The Medieval Drama was characterized by three different forms: the first and the most important was “the Miracle play”. It was staged by members of the trade guilds and was mainly performed on movable stage wagons, that were known as pageants: They were open on all sides and the actors performed some stories from the Bible, about the creation of Adam to the Resurrection of Christ and the Last Judgement. They acted in English. The pageants used to stop in different parts of the city and people listened to the stories with great interest and emotional involvement.

The second important form of theatrical composition is “the Morality play”, which was the new development in drama based on the personifications of human vices and virtues and not about the Bible. They represented the first step towards psychological stories set in a contemporary environment. Everyman was the most important example of Morality play.

In the late 15th century the “Interlude” developed: this new form of composition was based on a short story, usually performed by a small acting company at a lord’s house. It was characterized by a combination of serious and comic elements: Disguise was one of the main features together with the dramatic character, whose purpose was to a arouse laughter by means of witty word games.

Greta Perini

The Knights of the Round Table

Sir Thomas Malory in the 15th centuries wrote a long collection of romances about King Artur and the Knights of the Round Falle making reference to Chorètien de Troyes works.

Chrètien de Troyes lived at the Maria di Champagne's court between 1160 and 1180 and wrote a series of knights romances, those romances were full of magic events and the most important part was dedicate to the importance of love.
In those romances dedicated to the Knights of the Round Table there were numberless personaes, the first is King Artur, a legendary gallant warrior that was able to unite the British and Christians Tribes against the Anglo-Saxon invasions, pagan people who worshipped a Germanic religon.
All around King Artur mouved many other personaes as his tutor wizard Merlin who grew Artù to attain the unification of the british tribes under his wise government.
Wizard Merlin was a fantastic personage who come from the celtic culture, in fact he rapresented the Druid figure.
In antithesis to Merlin was the witch Morgana, so she was a magic figure, but she had negatives characteriestic, she worked for the breton defeat and for the paganism supremacy.

Another very important figure of the romance was Queen Ginevra very loved and idealized by Artù, but she was unfaithful to him following in love with Sir Lancillotto one of the most brave kinghts and friends of Artù.

The greatness of those romances doesn't lie in the more or less veracity of the told stories but in the represented values; with those romances had come to us the medioeval vision of life, ideals like onor, loyalty, faithfulness and love for the King and for the Church were unrenounciabily values for the medieval man; those feelling are so far from ours that they train an unresistible actraction.

Lia Fabbri

THE THEATRE IN ENGLAND

Initially performances were linked to religious celebration, in particular Christian events: monks and priests acted pieces of Bible in churches.
Then, during the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, these performances took place elsewhere, and members of trade guilds, not more monks and priests, acted in them. During this period Latin was replaced with English too.These performances, called Miracle Plays, gave dramatic shape to the whole story of the Bible and they were set on movable stage wagons called pageants, which stopped at different place in town. In front of them people watched the episode they wanted to see.
Then appeared a new kind of performance: the Morality Play. Their characters weren’t taken from the Bible, but they were personifications of human vices and virtues. This represented the first step towards a psychological interpretation of characters.
At the end of the 15th century were created Interludes. Theese were short plays that combined serious and comic elements, performing by a small acting company at lord’s house.

By Giulia Covacci

Hamlet in Concert at the Theatre

Last Tuesday we went to the theatre Puccini in Florence to see “Hamlet in concert”, based on the famous tragedy of Shakespeare.

The Shakespearean masterpiece puts staging the inner anguish of the young prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who, discovered the horrible plan behind the death of his father, cultivates revenge against his uncle, murderer and usurper, but fought by doubts and insecurities continually delaying action until the tragic epilogue.

Interpreting in an original way the figure of young Hamlet the director, Grant Fraser, abandons the dark drama of the Elizabethan opera to realize a show which develops over the notes of the grandiose 80s rock. That's “Hamlet in concert", whose plot remains almost entirely linked to the original one.

In this musical Hamlet with his doubts and insecurities, closely remembers a teenager of nowadays; the music becomes a way of expression and protest: the young prince seems like the eternal teenager that hates his family, he doesn’t know what he wants from his life, he struggles against himself and against the world too. He tries to escape from the torments of everyday life through art, like Graffiti art.

The director recasts the story of Hamlet through the sounds of Rolling Stone, Pink Floyd, U2, Queen and others; their music intertwine to the verses of the great Shakespearean classic. Also the characters on stage assume the profile of famous rock star: for example, the young Hamlet directly remembers, with his black dress and studded belt, the post punk people in England, Ophelia may be related to the most famous pop stars of the 80s, even the Queen with leather boots; and the uncle with Heavy Metal t-shirt, accompanied by boots and cowboy hat, seem to come from a Hard Rock band (the character that the audience like most) mainly youth, perhaps due to his strange way of introducing himself: in any case also the other characters, perhaps less important, like Ophelia's father, can be fun.

The comedy is very funny and the actors are very good, so much that despite being in the original language it was not difficult to follow the story, thanks to their talent and the presence of songs. Another thing that struck much the audience was the presence of special effects, such apparitions of ghosts and many more, which have increased the attraction of all those present.

Mirko Risaliti - Cantiani Michele - Goretti Martina

at the Theatre, again!

...but this time for a MUSICAL..."Hamlet in Concert" produced by Palketto Stage!
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vote 4 the competition!

I am very pleased to inform you that the whole 3B class has been selected as judge for a competition:

some students of the class 4C have written fantastic ghost stories and you should judge them according to your personal opinion.
Please, reply with your preference to:

a) No Place is Safe
b) The Cemetery
c) The Mistery of the Classroom
d) The Revealing mirror

(Obviously, the names are omitted not to influence you)

The 4 stories are the following:

a) No Place is Safe

A beath woke me up, I started to perspire...

little by little the sigh became louder and louder.

I was holding my pillow close to my heart that was beating as fast as it could.

I was hot but I wasn't able to uncover myself.

I was pietrified.

After few minutes I realized that I had to get up from the bed and try to discover what the hell was going on.

I took a big breath and I turned on the light...I went in my leaving-room where I saw a pool of blood.

I couldn't scream because of the shock but I was crying.

I followed the line of blood on the floor and i got in my mother's room but I heard a strong noise behind me:

I turned but I couldn't see anything.

IIturned back and I prolonged my arm in order to turn on the light..........SWISHHHHHHHH...Ponk:

All Dead!

b) The Cemetery.

I am lying down on a field. It’s all dark around me and I feel the wet grass brushing my skin. I realize that my eyes are closed, so I open them slowly.

It’s evening, and the sun is setting down.

«What’s happened? Where am I?» I ask myself.

The last thing I remember is my mum who says «Goodnight, dear» and kisses me before going to sleep.

I manage to raise myself, and I begin to look around. I see a line of cypresses on a hill and a lot of grey tombstones placed in an orderly way that make me think «I’m in a cemetery».

«I must go away from here before the sunset, or it will be too dark… I haven’t time to lose!». So I start running looking for a way out, but suddenly I feel something that blocks my feet on the ground… Two horrible hands that come out from the grass are holding my ankles and I can move myself anymore!

I scream at the top of my voice and I start struggling, but the hands keep on tighten. Then I feel some icy fingers grinding my neck, and I can breathe no more!

After a few seconds the hands loosen the grip, so I take the opportunity to free myself and run away.

I stop only when I’m out of breath, and I sit on the ground… but I don’t make it in time for resting that I’m surrounded by a lot of zombies!

They come closer and closer and I don’t know that to do… So I lie myself with my face on the grass, and I begin to cry loudly.

Then I open my eyes and all of a sudden I realize that I’m not in the cemetery anymore. I feel the pillow under my head and the warm blanket covering me… «Oh my god, this is my bed» I shout. «It was just a nightmare!».

c)THE MYSTERY OF THE CLASSROOM

In my school there is an old old legend about a mysterious classroom, the art-classroom. It is situated under the headmaster-room, near the physical-room. Now it is always closed, but once I heard some keepers talking about it, that is a very incredible scary story.

About 20 years before, a couple of students used to meet in that room every day secretly, since they feared not to be accepted by their families and friends.

The meetings between the girls have been continuing for many months, and their love grew day by day; together they were happy and they thought that nothing would have separated them. A day while they were cuddling, a classmate entered the class and saw them. Initially the girl continued to watch secretly, then understood the situation, came forward with the threat to tell the secret love to everybody.

The girls implored her to keep the secret but the cruel spy decided to talk about this with the teachers and with the classmates.

The frightened girls feared the friend’s and the families’ opinion and decided to die together. So they killed themselves in the same place where their love was born and grown with some poison.

The next day they had been found embraced one another lying down on the floor. The bad girl who pushed them to suicide, caught by remorse, became crazy. During the night she had a terrible nightmare: the ghosts of the two students crying and screaming asked her the reason for which she had revealed their secret.

She was shut in a spectral mad-house for the rest of her life, keeping the secret with herself…

The room, where these terrible and dreadful events were happened, was closed forever, trying to forget this sad love story.

Still today the keepers that clear the hall of the downstairs hear some spooky noise and see shadows by the crack under the door of the art-room. Take care…

d) The Revealing Mirror

One fine day, Odette, a young woman of twenty-five years of age, broke her mirror that she had in her bedroom and so she decided to buy a new one.
While she was walking along the street, she noticed that in the window of an old-fashioned shop there was a fascinating mirror: Odette went into the antique shop and she asked the shopkeeper how much the mirror costed. It was very cheap and so she decided to buy it even if the man hinted at a curse related to the mirror.

At the beginning it was all going well but with the passing of the time she noticed that the mirror altered all the things reflected into it. Odette started to be afraid. She was awfully troubled and frightened for this situation insomuch as she thought to be mad.

Odette, one evening, resolved to cover the scary mirror with a red sheet and she went to bed.
At the night she had a terrible nightmare: an old woman, with a ghost that was turning around her, told her that all the hurts to her family and to other people twenty years before would be come back to her and that the day before she would have had to look into the mirror.
Odette woke up at 6 o'clock and immediately she uncovered the "looking glass" and saw into it. The mirror showed her the disastrous blaze that she caused in her small country when she was a child. She was the only survivor although she remained in coma for five months.

Odette started to tremble and she did a terrible scream. She remembered everything and she became really mad. She stayed to look the mirror for 6 hours without a break. In the end she broke the mirror with a fist and she killed herself with a splinter of glass.

The pernicious mirror recomposed itself and, the day before, it was in a old-fashioned shop again.

THE END OF EDEN?

The article takes an idea from the New York Times feature story “In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment” by Ian Fisher to understand the way in which foreign see Italian life; and if still exist the Italian Eden.

In the past, Italy was seen as the historical and cultural Eden, a place where life was very cheap for outlander visitors, but, after years of inflaction, today life in Italy has became very expensive. In spite of this, too many tourists continue to came in Italy every years to find the Italian way of life, but they don’t meet the Italian reality of daily life; for this reason our writter prefear interview foreign residents and not fleeting travellers.

By those interviews we can see a country in decline.

Robert Nordvall, native Pennsylvanian, claims that Italians always complaining of the public aspects even in the 1960s’ with the economic boom; they have always had a pessimistic vision of the future and this is the cause of the economic slowdown.

Also in the interview grant by Jeremy Boudreau there is the hope that Italy can keep up with the Europe development being not only a country for tourists.

An art historian crub for the excessive cost of the art’s ticket, now inaccessibles for many people.

The article completed with the consideration that bringing the Italian problems on the international press has made the positive effect to promove a discussion on the Italian reality way of life that isn’t only pizza and mandolino.

I think that the Italian Eden has never existed, it was only a romantic idea of some rich and superficial travelers; our country has always been more complex then the foreigns think with many deep contradictions that are the problem and the power of Italy at the same time.

Lia Fabbri

Fellini and the common places in Italy

Alexandra Lawrence’s article is about Italy from the economic boom of the 1960s’ to today.
Everyone knows Italy for its architecturel, culturel, landscape painting and culinary beauties, but not only for that. For years Italy has been considered a special destination, but owing to its inefficient political and bureaucratic management, it risks to compromise its image in the world. Fortunately, thanks to its beautiful characteristics, it has temporarily resolved its problematic situation.
A lot of people were interviewed, and everyone claimed problems could be solved by improving intercultural relationships. One of these, Florence Pettit, a British student who studied in Florence, suggested improving high-tech, so that Italy would simply no longer be the same.
Another person, Micheal P., a local art historian said: “ I hate that it is now more difficult to access the things I love” declaring that the price of entrance fees to museums, monuments and churches is too high.
Italy’s national identity was called into question with Ian Fisher recent New York Times article, in which he says that Italian people are depressed, unhappy and with not much hope for the future.
Is this the real image that the world has about us?
Some foreign students said that even if the internships are difficult for the combination of language barrier and lack of interaction with residents, the Italian government has devised a system of volunteers and an organisation to improve the foreign undergraduates’ social life.
You don’t need a new Michelangelo, Dante or another Brunelleschi to understand that Italy is not only “pizza, guitar mandolin and the Mafia”, but it has to fling off the heavy cloak of the mythical dolce vita and It will be ready to go out of its lethargy.

Robert Dudley: an Englishman in Tuscany

The “great benefit” of an Englishman in Tuscany

Robert Dudley, an Englishman, had penetrated the inner circles of Medici family.

He was born in 1574 at Richmond Palace in Surrey and was the powerful favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The young man inherited important estates and titles like Earl Leicester and Earl of Warwick and his early career was in privateering directed at Spanish galleons in the Atlantic. In 1605 after the conversion to Catholicism he ran off to France to marry his third wife, Elizabeth Southwell.

By 1607 Dudley went to live at Villa Rinieri, near Florence, where he disclosed to Duke Ferdinando I de’ Medici the secrets of maritime technology, navigation and Atlantic geography, discovered at court of King of England, James I, who declared him an outlaw and confiscated his estates and transferring titles.

Here he involved designing warships for the Tuscan arsenal, helping in the development of Livorno’s breakwater and harbour fortifications and then he designed a gallerata, a galleon for use as a merchant ship.

From letter of Alessandro Senesi, who was a secretary at the Medici court, to Caterina de’ Medici, we can know Dudley was dabbling in a rather new form of medicine based on chemical compounds. He was helped by Marco Cornacchini, a professor at the University of medicine in Pisa, who described in his book the powers of Dudley’s medicinal powder. He wasn’t worried about the collateral effects and shakered “great benefit” in Florence and Mantua.

Valentina Bacherini & Sara Tassi

Something new...a class of journalists!

Ecco un'attività nuova che è stata ben accolta ;-)!!

La classe 3B, assieme alla 4C, ha aderito al un progetto "The Florentine in the classroom" indirizzato alle scuole superiori della provincia.
Una volta al mese gli studenti ricevono la rivista d'informazione e cultura inglese "The Florentine", ne leggono gli articoli e di alcuni ritenuti più interessanti fanno il commento postato poi sul blog.

La rivista esce anche on line. Dateci un'occhiata!

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