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Okay Britt, we are still in Siena. The Palio hasn't happened yet and we had time to go through the Duomo.  Let's see what you remember.
    The 14th century was a time of great wealth and power for Siena, and plans were made to expand the cathedral into a great church that would dwarf even St. Peter's in Rome. The already-large Duomo would form just the transept of the new huge cathedral.
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    Expansion got underway in 1339 with construction on a new nave off the Duomo's right transept. But in 1348, the ________________swept through the city and killed 4/5 of Siena's population. The giant cathedral was never completed, and the half-finished walls of the Duomo Nuovo (New Cathedral) survive as a monument to Siena's ambition and one-time wealth.

    Let's talk about virgins for a while.The definition of the word virgin changed sometime during the medieval and early Christian times. Originally the word virgin meant "A woman who is free to choose her lovers, without bondage to any social rule created by man, a woman not possessed by any man, a woman who shares or owns land, a woman who is chief, ruler, warrior, lover or any gift expressed without suppression. A female who is sexually responsible and free and hence socially her own person."  Don't you think it is interesting that somehow it got changed?

    ​Here is an interesting article (I'll put this link on the answer page too.