Tag: Vaticano
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
