Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna is a region in the northeast of Italy, made up of the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The region’s capital city is Bologna. The region became part of the Kingdom of Italy between 1859 and 1861.

Brantwood, Coniston

Where John Ruskin (1819-1900) spent the remainder of his life from 1871.  Inspired by Wordsworth, whom he reportedly read daily throughout life, Ruskin was nonetheless later critical of Wordsworth's inward focus.  He gave more direct attention to wedding an aesthetic and spiritual reformation to alternative arts of dwelling to resist wasteful, ecologically violent industrialization.