I live and work in Florence, Italy. My international spirit travels with an American passport but I’ve long since lost count of all the relevant metrics. I am very much at home in Europe. Italy as been my cultural north star since 2004. I moonlight as a legal researcher for a local law firm. My off-hours are filled with parenting, managing various people and projects, and literature. I have worked professionally in higher education, international education, software development, fine art, and writing and publishing. Learn More about Monica Learn More about my Publications
The Two Noble Kinsmen is the last of 39 plays to the Shakespeare oeuvre, written toward the end of his career in 1613 in collaboration
Look, th’ unfolding star calls up theshepherd. Put not yourself into amazement howthese things should be. All difficulties are but easywhen they are known. Duke,
Shakespeare’s final masterpiece, self-referencing yet universal, was written just five years before he died in 1616. It all kicks of with a shipwreck, as so
Pausing for a moment to make general historical remarks. Three years ago this time we were in our first weekend of the hard lock down
I finished the vintage print copy of Cymbeline last night right before I fell asleep. Quite a note to go out on! Never mind the
It often happens with the Shakespeare project that I’ll get some nice momentum going, plays are fun and easy to read, easy to find, and
