Oggi è giovedì. Today in Italian class we learned about job occupations and how to ask for contact information.
In our Italy Toady class was awesome! The mayor of Sansepolcro, Prof. Franco Polcri, came in to talk to us about some history of Sansepolcro. He was very interesting; he has been to the United States twice. Prof. Polcri speaks Italian and French; English is very difficult for him. Before becoming a mayor, he taught literature and history in high school. Prof. Polcri wrote a book about the Accademia olegi Sbalzati found here in the Palazzo Alberti. The Accademia was a place used to be for poets to recite there poems to others. After the Alberti family moved out of the palazzo, the Accademia moved as well. The palazzo was used for many things since then. First it was used for the Alberti house; then it went from being for the people in the town to use for the study of Piero della Francesca. Near the end, it became a place to gamble. But today, it is a place of culture and knowledge for the Meredith College abroad (and a few other businesses on the ground floor as well).
The Alberti family was a known as one of the ‘greats’ in Sansepolcro. Everyone had great respects for them. They were a big family of artists; eighteen of them to be exact. Some worked for the pope in Rome and painted gorgeous frescos that I will have to see soon. In the palazzo here, there is a beautiful fresco in the Sala della Fama, which is a room of importance where they have meetings for the town sometimes. The fresco was painted by Cheubino Alberti and it consisted of two angels wrapped in a long wide ribbon like fabric. His use of vivid colors brightens the room entirely. I will take a picture of it as soon as possible.

Well that’s enough for now =]
Ciao!