Each small group, consisting of four or five boys, researches a single structure in Florence such as the Ponte Vecchio, Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Rucellai, the Loggia dei Lanzi, Il Duomo, the Campanile (Giotto’s Tower), the Pazzi Chapel, and the Uffizi. Boys discover in their readings important, revealing, and often fascinating information. By utilizing the research skills they are refining in humanities/research and the concepts and information they obtain in humanities/history, they are joining together the three paths of their humanities studies. The boys’ work in other courses also finds its way into the creation of their projects. Perhaps the innovation that has affected the Via Fiorentina project most significantly has been the incorporation of digital technology. Introduced during the 1999–2000 school year, it provides an additional path to pursue in the project’s development and completion. Student work in the second trimester of the Eighth Grade technology course is closely aligned with Via Fiorentina. With assistance and support from their technology teacher, boys proceed along a number of electronic routes. They distinguish reliable sources from unreliable ones. They explore further the visual capabilities of PowerPoint. They critique examples of both superior and inferior graphic design. Digital technology has trumped overhead projection. Two additional tasks call on the boys’ work in other subjects, specifically, English and art. Half the writers compose a lucid paragraph about the edifice itself while the other half craft a paragraph about a painting or sculpture in, on, or near it. The written result must include pertinent information about the work; its history and patron; its architect, painter, or sculptor; and its purpose. The challenge is to accomplish this within 250 words. Tight writing indeed! Despite this word limit, there has been a perceptible improvement in the quality of the boys’ written work in recent years—in part the effect of the Comprehensive Writing Program. Developed by the full language arts faculty during the summer of 2008, the program is now in its fourth year. When boys begin to compose the written portions of Via Fiorentina, they do so readied with much expert instruction, valuable practice, and individualized feedback in the art of expository writing from their English teachers. The recently revised academic program in art in Grades Seven and Eight has also exerted a positive influence on Via Fiorentina. Boys who fulfill the role of artist create either a drawing of an architectural detail or a painting of a building’s façade. Their two-year sequence in observational art techniques equips them with specific tools that they employ in their depictions of Florentine Renaissance architecture. An excellent example of the felicitous transfer of skills from one course to another is apparent in the accomplished painting of Palazzo Rucellai by Arthur Calcagnini, Class of 2011. The artist truly captured the beauty of Alberti’s design through the use of the methods and techniques that are the building blocks