Ramparts grown grassy yet bare And tortuous paths once-manicured but now ill-kept With
distant Gregorian chants on a swiftly swept wind. We came by this sequestered place Alone …

Jeremy Landig, Conductor Page 1 Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU
School of Music Graduate Recitals Music 4-3-2003 Jeremy Landig, Conductor Jeremy …

Welcome to Casa Rocca Piccola at 74 Republic Street Valletta. It is the lived-in home of an
ancient Maltese family. The history of Casa Rocca Piccola goes back over 400 years to an …

This glazed terracotta roundel is on the exterior of Orsanmichele in Florence, high above the
niche belonging to the Mercanzia (a tribunal for the guilds) and serves as a coat of arms …

Travelers in seventeenth-century France went out of their way to see the château at
Richelieu. Diaries of the period regularly mention the majestic complex, rebuilt by the …

charm of those Cyclopean chambers festooned with flowering laurestinus and ivy--those
“awful cells where heavenly pensive Contemplation dwells," and heightens by contrast the …

6 1 RPATER\FILIO\FECITKARLKIRCHWEY In the deep tranquility of the courtyard, dizzy
with jasmine's smell, the plush sibilance of gravel and the sound of water in a braid from the …

TORRENTIAL rains, and the Arno careering madly down like a riderless charger, are, I fear,
preparing for Her Majesty a reception hardly less churlish than that vouchsafed her just nine …

* Chamouny is one of the highest mountain valleys of the Barony of Faucigny in the Savoy
Alps; and exhibits a kind of fairy world, in which the wildest appearances (I had almost said …

Chretien's Le Conte del Graal was written, to 1235, the date of the last of the Vulgate cycle,
Europe was transformed. The Crusades had opened up the European mindset. Encounters …