Tag: Made in Italy
Botticelli e i misteri della Primavera
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Simonetta Cattaneo è un nome che non dice nulla ai più. Eppure basta vedere per un attimo la “Primavera” o la “Nascita di Venere” di Botticelli per far capire anche ai profani di chi si parla. Della giovane genovese, del...
Saint Francis of Assisi
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Francis of Assisi, one of the most important and influent Saints of the whole Christianity, honored by the new Pope when choosing a new papal name: Francis I. His life, from the early youth and his knight aspirations thro...
La vera storia di Romeo e Giulietta
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Mariotto o Luigi e non Romeo? Giannozza o Lucina e non Giulietta? Siena o Udine invece di Verona…? E’ possibile che la storia d’amore più celebre di tutti i tempi abbia una base storica? Shakespeare si è limitato a cambi...
Il Magnifico Inganno di Cesare Borgia
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E’ stato non solo uno degli episodi più oscuri e drammatici del Rinascimento ma, secondo Machiavelli, si è trattato di un vero e proprio “capolavoro”. E’ stato proprio il grande pensatore fiorentino a coniare l’espressio...
An enigma named Celestine V
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Celestine V was the only Pope who left his appointment before his death ( and for this reason Dante placed him in Hell in the Divine Comedy). During the four months of his pontificate he never once went to Rome. He’d bee...
Mussolini, una morte da riscrivere
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Qualla di Mussolini è una morte da riscrivere: le più recenti tecniche medico legali e digitali portano infatti a conclusioni molto diverse dalla versione ufficiale a proposito della morte di Mussolini ufficialmente avve...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...