Duomo in Lecce
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Lecce, Italy
Arrived in Lecce last night. LONG train ride. Beautiful but really hot. Like Florida in August.
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Cabbala
Who’s on First? Cabbala and the Church Nearly seventy-five years ago, Abraham Heschel wrote an essay on Jewish mysticism.[1] Originally published in 1949 in a collected volume of essays by many authors, it’s likely that you never heard of it and more likely that you haven’t read it. Republished in 2017 as a short book, this…
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An Italics Problem
I thought I should explain why some Today’s Word editions end up with no space between a word in italics and the next work (likethis). There is a bug in the WordPress program which intermittently and arbitrarily makes this mistake. It’s not in the original posted work and it isn’t uniform, so Mark and I…
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Compiano
The Grimaldis, the Royal Family of Monaco, have their roots right here. A marble plate hung on the castle wall reports all the royal families that have inhabited the castle since the year 800 AD.
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Just a Tiny Town
Gazzuolo is a village of 2,247 people, but you never know what kind of gems you will find in small places like this in Italy. Here are two pictures of the church in Gazzuolo, built 356 years ago when nearby Montova was ruled by the Gonzaga family. Now it is falling apart, but if you…
