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Saint Rita of Cascia
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The extraordinary life of Rita of Cascia: believer, wife, mom, widow, nun, healer and saint. Venerated by milions of believers all over the world, Saint Rita is one of the most popular icons of the Christianity. Margheri...
Chi ha ucciso il figlio del Papa?
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Nel Rinascimento la corte papale venne sconvolta da tre drammi molto simili che si sono ripetuti, uguali a se stessi, nell’arco di 50 anni esatti: ogni volta il figlio prediletto del Pontefice viene assassinato brutalmen...
Francesco d’Assisi
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E’ stato uno dei santi più importanti e influenti di tutta la storia della cristianità. Ma in che ambiente e in quale contesto storico si è mosso Francesco d’Assisi? Quale era la situazione politica e religiosa nell’Ital...
The Spring Mystery – The Botticelli’s lover
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Simonetta Cattaneo is a name which doesn’t sound familiar but just look at Botticelli’s “Spring” or “The Birth of Venus” for a moment and you’ll realize who we’re talking about! This young lady from Genoa was the talk of...
Caravaggio
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During his roman stay Caravaggio got himself talked about not just for his skill. Between 1595 and 1606 the restless painter passed his time painting and contending, creating masterpieces and fighting duels up to the fa...
Caravaggio, la vera storia
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Col suo lungo e travagliato soggiorno romano Caravaggio ha segnato un epoca artistica a cavallo tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Ma il grande pittore non ha solo lasciato tracce artistiche: nei suoi anni romani Michelangelo ...
The Ideal City – Sabbioneta and Vespasiano Gonzaga
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In the second half of the 16th century Vespasiano Gonzaga realized his dream: an ideal city. Sabbioneta (Mantova) is a hymn to harmony and architectonic perfection, built however by a violent (he was a soldier by profess...
Galileo, the real history
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Both a scientist and a man deeply rooted in his times, and determined to change them with his discoveries and inventions, GG engaged a tug of war with the catholic inquisition, that he eventually lost having to give up s...
Savonarola’s Visions
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It seems that Gerolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) conquered Florentine’s hearts with the prophecies pronounced in his furious preaches, some of which become reality. Admired and feared by the Greats of his age, from Lorenzo ...
Lucrezia Borgia’s true story
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Legend paints her to be beautiful, cynical and murderous. History leaves a better memory: Lucrezia Borgia was not an Angel but she was a woman forced by men of her family to endure painful choices. But most of the terrib...