<p>D. got back from Carnevale in Venice last week. She went with a fellow student (from Nicaragua) whose house mother had a friend who had a pension on a small island around Venice and, yadda, yadda, yadda.</p>
<p>Now she is finishing work on her Kahn Fellowship application for next year (the subject matter is really right up her alley). I’m trying to convince her to take a day-trip to see Guido and buy herself a piffero for her birthday…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hotpipes.com/guido.html[/url]”>http://www.hotpipes.com/guido.html</a></p>
<p>but I think she still needs some convincing. Oh, if I had time…we’d write a book together - “Naked Neptune! Bad Art of the Uffizi and Other Florentine Atrocities”, but, alas, I think it will have to wait.</p>
<p>One of her teachers this semester is Italo Calvino’s daughter, and, apparently, she’s full of good stories!</p>