Tag: Made in Italy
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...
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...
Caterina Sforza, guerriera e alchimista
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Tra le grandi donne del Rinascimento italiano, Caterina Sforza Riario ha più di un motivo per primeggiare: esercitò anche lei un’influenza politica ma, a differenza delle altre, lo fece anche con le armi, riuscendo in pi...
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...
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...
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 ...
Gran Diavolo: Vita e morte di Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
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Dopo un’infanzia agiata e violenta e poi mille battaglie e vittorie, nel novembre 1526, a soli 28 anni, Giovanni de’ Medici, più noto come Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, uno dei più importanti capitani di ventura dell’epoca,...
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...
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...
Giulia Farnese, l’amante del Papa
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Giulia Farnese (1474-1524) fu una delle donne più belle – e a tratti, più potenti – del suo tempo. Entrata nelle grazie di papa Borgia aiutò l’ascesa del fratello maggiore Alessandro (che diverrà Paolo III) in seno alla ...