Church of the Gesù, Palermo, Palermo, Italy: The Church of the Gesù, known also as the Saint Mary of Jesus or the Casa Professa, is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church established under the patronage of the Jesuit order, and located at Piazza Casa Professa 21 in Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. Wikipedia

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Castello Del Nero Hotel Spa, Tuscany, Italy.

1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.

Girolamo Savonarola, OP (UK: /ˌsævɒnəˈroʊlə/, US: /ˌsævən-, səˌvɒn-/,[3][4][5]Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo savonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola[6] was an ascetic[7] Italian Dominicanfriar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule, and the exploitation of the poor.

 A trial by fire proposed by a rival Florentine preacher in April 1498 to test Savonarola's divine mandate turned into a fiasco, and popular opinion turned against him. Savonarola and two of his supporting friars were imprisoned. On 23 May 1498, Church and civil authorities condemned, hanged, and burned the three friars in the main square of Florence.

View of Constantinople by moonlight.

Ivan Aivazovsky, with his birth name being Hovannes Aivazyan was an Armenian artist.

Aivazovsky, one of the most successful romantic painters to exist, joined the rankings of such painters as Delacroix. Paintings made in Venice, Florence, Naples, Amalfi and Sorrento brought him an undeniable successs

He went on to travel throughout the Caucasus, where he created several landscape paintings equal in beauty to his seascapes.

Tsar Nikolay I called him the Tsar of the sea due to his insanely popular seascapes.

The painting of the explosion of a Turkish ship by the Greek revolutionist Konstantinos Kanaris (first prime minister of Independent Greece) was left unfinished as he died suddenly, at 82 years old.

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i have less than 2 months now in florence and im really gonna miss hearing people walk by and the sound of live music somewhere around the corner as i sit here typing away or drawing like some latine carrie bradshaw minus the excessive spending on fashion and hook ups

sex in the city? study in the city

A very useful guide to buying Gelato from a Italian local