Day 10 – June 2:
Today is the Day of the Republic commemorating when Italy became a nation. With school closed, Roman typographer Mauro Zennaro led a walking tour of Roman inscriptions. We trekked from the Piazza Minerva, where Bernini’s famous “chick and elephant” sculpture of a small elephant points his rear to the nearby monks, to the the Piazza del Popolo, where the first Arabic numerals can be found inscribed on a church in Rome. Workshop participants made countless tracings of words and letters, and the clicks of digital cameras filled the corsos. previous day | next day
