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...
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...
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...
La vera storia di Santa Rita
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In bilico tra storia, antropologia e apologetica cristiana, la vicenda di Margherita / Rita da Cascia ha attraversato oltre cinque secoli per fare di Santa Rita la donna più venerata al mondo dopo la Madonna. Tra la nat...
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Una vita passata all’ombra del potere, a studiare e teorizzare il potere: Machiavelli “scienziato della politica” è sicuramente una delle figure del Rinascimento italiano più note al mondo. Eppure accanto al Machiavelli ...
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...
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...
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...
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...