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@Ben_Baby I’m my day midwives knew how to take care of women.

Bengals QB Joe Burrow shared his this post on IG about the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dobbs case on abortion:

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/04/27/wor…

Michelangelo’s David (a copy) in front of Florence city hall, shrouded in black in sign of solidarity with people of #Ukraine

@spoggioli1 My heart goes out to the people of Ukraine. Thank you, Florentines.

Bruce Springsteen, Renaissance Poet - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency mcsweeneys.net/articles/bruce…

BREAKING NEWS: California bans all state travel to Ohio over its new law which allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and even health insurance companies to deny medical services to LGBTQ+ Americans based on their own bigoted religious beliefs. RT IF YOU SUPPORT CALIFORNIA’S MOVE!

How to Build Your Own Renaissance thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/07/76951/ via @PublicDiscourse

A Botticelli exhibition is coming to Paris in September vogue.fr/fashion-cultur… via @VogueParis

For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show nytimes.com/2021/06/24/art…

@wantedinrome Would love to take this trip!

#Italy is to launch a vintage train tracing the footsteps of #Dante, taking tourists on a slow journey through the landscapes of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, seven centuries after the poet's death. bit.ly/3ibuPkX

Deanna Shemek's latest book about yours truly. We are pleased. @UCIHumanities @UCIrvine

@spoggioli1 Kind of odd to hear that in 2009 Falcone "discovered" this question. Remember Linda Nochlin (1971)? How about Jonathan Katz Nelson on Plautina Nelli? A world of work by art historians was ignored here. Whaaat?

'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists : NPR npr.org/2021/01/02/951…

20^ Settimana della Lingua Italiana #SLIM2020 (19.10.20) youtu.be/aeTJU6I1RfA via @YouTube Learn Italian, my friends! Otherwise, how will you talk to Isabelle d'Este?

At the end of summer comes UC Irvine's 'A Midsummer Night's Zoom' latimes.com/socal/daily-pi…

If we had known that masks could help us prevent the spread of plague in my time and place (16th-century Mantua), I would have issued an edict commanding people to wear them. Because I am smart and I don't mess around.

Refusing to Wear a Mask Is Like Driving Drunk nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opi…

Italians Find ‘a Moment of Joy in This Moment of Anxiety’ nyti.ms/33j3xQ6

History? Languages? Literature? Culture? No enlightened nation worth the name has neglected them since Ancient Greece. In my own century I advanced them with passion and helped create a Renaissance. Step up to defend them now, Americans.

Trivium and Quadrivium were not a bad starting point...

nytimes.com/2019/12/16/art… via ⁦@nytimes⁩ My era had so many brilliant women. Remember us!