By Alice Adams This October, Marist College president Kevin Weinman paid a visit to the Marist Italy campus in Florence. He looks in on the programs every semester when he gets the chance, this time flying into Florence after a visit to the first-year Dublin program. The festivities lasted two days, beginning with a group... Continue Reading →
By Alice Adams Summer is turning to autumn. Leftover summertime tourists are departing, and Florentines are trickling back into the city whose sticky heat they had fled. With the closing of summer comes the closing of Marist students’ first month in Italy. Life moves from the ten days of sweaty orientation to syllabus week to... Continue Reading →
By Alice Adams Hello, Red Fox community! I'm Alice and I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new host of Marist Italy’s program blog. I’m a first-year at Marist College. I chose to take advantage of the school’s renowned first-year abroad program and spend my first year in Florence, Italy. I’m originally from the USA... Continue Reading →
Fitness in Florence: An Interview with Joseph Kraus by Una Soliday Student worker, determined studier, and fitness fanatic, Joseph Kraus is an extremely active member in his Florence community. He works at the Marist Italy offices as a part of the Student Wellness team and often conducts events such as the new “Wednesday Wellness Walks”... Continue Reading →
It was nice to catch up with our Marist Italy Alumni Sydney Kysar and talk about her FFE experience. Why did you choose the FFE program? I wanted to learn art from the source!! Going to museums and being able to see a Botticelli or Caravaggio in person is more memorable than reading them in... Continue Reading →
by Rose Patricia, Freshman BA With the Covid restrictions related to music and entertainment here in Italy, street musicians have come on the rise. At the beginning of this year, a color system was introduced in Italy whereby regions are assigned to different zones depending on how spread the virus is, and the different zones... Continue Reading →
By Aylah Dhruv, FFE student Every year freshmen take a class called First Year Seminar. This year the class is centered around ideas of travel and place. We are exploring pilgrimages and thinking about how our own journeys from home to Florence have impacted us, and how it is similar to other historical pilgrimages. We watched the movie The Way which detailed the experience of a man walking the Camino de... Continue Reading →
Brunelleschi’s Dome is the heart of the city, held tight by the surrounding Tuscan homes. This structure represents the duality of grandiose and detail, of history and innovation, failure and perseverance. Soon you too will live among the duplexity of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, you will scope out every particular design in... Continue Reading →
By Jillian McCarthy, FFE, 2016-17 The streets of Florence have many interesting names. Most of them happen to be derived from Florence’s rich cultural history. For example, one of the symbols of Florence is a lion, and lions used to be kept in cages near Piazza della Signoria. One of the streets near Piazza della... Continue Reading →
By: Tahiti Beaupre, FFE, 2016-17 Planning on studying in Florence and have no previous experience with Italian? Don’t worry, we got you covered. Here are a few basic words and phrases that will help you fit right in! Greetings Buongiorno (Good Morning) Buonasera (Good Afternoon/Evening-Formal) Buonanotte (Good Night-Informal) Arrivederci (Goodbye-Formal) Ciao (Hello & Goodbye-Informal) Salve (Hello & Goodbye-Neutral) Come si chiama? (What... Continue Reading →
