Tag: Made in Italy
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Giovani, belle e spietate: le Brigantesse
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Si chiamavano Michelina, Filomena, Maria, Marianna… donne passate alla storia come le “Brigantesse”. Donne giovani e spietate, con vaghi ideali politici, che dopo il 1860, in un’Italia appena unita dal Piemonte dei Savoi...
I segreti di Federico da Montefeltro
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Federico II da Montefeltro, oltre che una delle maggiori figure politiche e militari di metà Quattrocento, è stato anche un grandissimo mecenate. E in particolare su una delle opere più importanti commissionate da Federi...
Giulia Gonzaga, un’eretica del Cinquecento
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Giulia Gonzaga (1513-1566): signora delle proprie terre (Fondi, lontana dalla natia Gazzuolo, presso Mantova), in odore di eresia, indipendente fino a sfiorare il femminismo (sposa a 16 anni ad un Colonna, a 18 anni rima...