by Jon Lackman | 27 February 2006 | Renaissance
Johns Hopkins University may soon shutter the Villa Spelman in Florence together with its storied Italian Studies Seminar, even though “the University recently received a gift of $100 million and has raised over $2.1 billion in its ‘Knowledge for the World’ campaign.” The villa eats $500,000 a year and needs repairs. Concerned parties have started an online petition.
