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Michelangelo's David is breathtaking! When I was studying the Italian Renaissance in school my art history professor described him as looking confident, but I disagree. I think that Michelangelo sculpted David just as he is sizing up Goliath and he realizes that he may have gotten in over his head? but he knows that there is no turning back now. I can see fear in his eyes, I don't think that fear makes him any less brave, quite the contrary. I think courage in the face of fear is true bravery.
As if I was walking through Renaissance Disneyland I headed to the Duomo. Michelangelo said that Ghiberti?s bronze baptistery doors were fit to be the gates of Paradise, and I agree. The line to get into the actual Duomo was incredibly long, but since it was free and a must-see I knew I had to be patient and wait. The Duomo is an amazing display of faith. The building stood for years without a roof, because the technology did not exist to build such a large dome? an unfinished cathedral didn?t bother the Florentines, they knew that eventually someone would come along and finish their beloved Duomo. And it was certainly worth the wait, for them and for me?
The mosquitoes in Italy are of some kind of mutant breed. Bug repellant doesn?t seem to keep them away and over the past couple of days I have been eaten alive. I headed to a pharmacy in hopes of getting the Italian form of Benadryl. I tried explaining what I wanted to the pharmacist (who didn?t speak great English), and he gave me a package of pills, only problem I had no idea what exactly it was, or how many to take. I tried to read the packaging but my Italian is paltry at best. Incredibly itchy, I decided to wing it? Two pills later I was blacked out on my bed... oh how I love super strong foreign drugs?
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