{"id":19093,"date":"2026-03-11T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/to-italy-with-love-and-rick-hamlin\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:07:11","slug":"to-italy-with-love-and-rick-hamlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/travel\/to-italy-with-love-and-rick-hamlin\/","title":{"rendered":"To Italy, With Love\u2014and Rick Hamlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an old saying, \u201cif you have a heart and a shirt, sell your shirt and go to Italy.\u201d At age 22, with not much more than a shirt\u2014money I\u2019d earned from painting my sister\u2019s house and doing odd summer jobs\u2014I\u2019d had enough to buy a ticket to Italy and stay there for a little while. I had just finished college and didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do with my life, but I figured whatever it was would be more interesting in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>I packed a portable typewriter in my Scotch plaid suitcase, kissed my parents goodbye and made my way by jet, boat and train to Florence, where I assumed I could live cheaply in a rented room and on mounds of authentic Italian pasta. I dreamed of singing in a choir, darting into ancient churches on a whim to feast on the art, writing the Great American Novel and practicing my college Italian with new friends. For money, I\u2019d find a job teaching English.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/d2zfkpu1r6ym98.cloudfront.net\/sites\/guideposts.org\/files\/hamlin2.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\" title=\"Rick Hamlin and his wife, Carol, in Rome\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"475\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-26562\" alt=\"Rick Hamlin and his wife, Carol, in Rome\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hamlin1.jpg\" style=\"width: 326px;height: 475px;float: right\" \/><\/a>I thank God my parents didn\u2019t say, \u201cDon\u2019t you think you should have some firmer plans before you go?\u201d They trusted me\u2014or what they didn\u2019t trust, they left for the angels to look after.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed for two years, and all those things I dreamed about came true, everything but the Great American Novel (there\u2019s still time for that). I sang in the chorus of the Duomo and the choir of St. James\u2019 Episcopal Church. I studied opera, gave concerts. I taught housewives and Italian NATO officers and university students to say things like \u201cHow nice to meet you,\u201d and I savored all the art on the walls and in the windows and on the floors of mindbogglingly beautiful churches, to say nothing of the glorious food.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the old masters that we see in America hang in museums, which are rich resources, to be sure. Still, there\u2019s something about seeing a statue or fresco or painting in the place in which the artist intended it to live. Context is everything. From my garret apartment in Florence, I could dash down five flights to a small Baroque church, where a masterful painting showed Christ being taken down from the Cross, his mother in despair. In between teaching and writing and singing, I could sit there and absorb the scene, meditating on it.<\/p>\n<p>I loved dropping by the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, just steps from my place, and gazing at Masaccio\u2019s luminous portrayal of the disciple Peter picking a coin out of a fish\u2019s mouth to pay the temple tax. And on my frequent trips to Rome, I always tried to see Caravaggio\u2019s painting of the Apostle Paul, thrown from his horse on the road to Damascus and in blind ecstasy on the ground, the words of Jesus ringing in his ears.<\/p>\n<p>When these works were created, most people couldn\u2019t read. This was how they learned the stories from the Bible, by seeing them come alive in art. Even today, all these years later, when I open my Bible, it\u2019s these inspired depictions that come to me, God\u2019s word in living color. These works are perhaps the greatest artistic expression man has ever achieved.<\/p>\n<p>I did indeed make good Italian friends\u2014one of them was recently visiting the States with his wife and daughter, challenging my command of more than a few forgotten nouns and verbs. Years ago, he used an Italian word that I still treasure, one that doesn\u2019t quite mean the same thing translated into English. \u201cCarissimo,\u201d he called me, the superlative of \u201cdear\u201d with that \u201cissimo\u201d suffix, with all the enthusiasm, warmth, kindness and a bit of hyperbole conveyed over its four syllables. Like Jesus calling his disciples his beloveds.<\/p>\n<p>That old saying isn\u2019t far from wrong. If you have a heart and shirt, sell the shirt and go to Italy. Your heart will be glad. Mine was and is. I\u2019ve gone back again and again with my wife, my kids, my friends, discovering new things every time. Art, food and a wonderful people\u2014Italy never disappoints.<\/p>\n<p><em>Join Rick and other <\/em>Guideposts <em>readers on a trip to Southern Italy and Rome this fall. For details, call 877-902-8687 and mention G<\/em><em>uideposts <\/em><em>or go to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocollette.com\/guideposts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.gocollette.com\/guideposts<\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more inspiring stories, subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/guidepostssub\"><strong>Guideposts<\/strong><\/a> <em>magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an old saying, \u201cif you have a heart and a shirt, sell your shirt and go to Italy.\u201d At age 22, with not much more than a shirt\u2014money I\u2019d earned from painting my sister\u2019s house and doing odd summer jobs\u2014I\u2019d had enough to buy a ticket to Italy and stay there for a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[55,153],"ppma_author":[476],"class_list":["post-19093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-inspiration","tag-travel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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