December 9, 2015
When you get your university diploma in Italy, you are laureato (lau-ray-áh-toe), literally “crowned with laurel.” Some graduates still wear the bay leaf wreath, a tradition dating back to ancient Greece, when poets and scholars were so honored (thus “poet laureate” and Nobel Laureate”).
I found this laurel-bedecked graduate wandering the streets with his Botticelli maiden.
When he saw my lens, he pulled her in for a smooch, Latin-lover style.
Long live laurels. Long live love, lads and lasses. Evviva l’Italia.
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