Tag: Made in Italy
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...
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...
Francesco d’Assisi
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E’ stato uno dei santi più importanti e influenti di tutta la storia della cristianità. Ma in che ambiente e in quale contesto storico si è mosso Francesco d’Assisi? Quale era la situazione politica e religiosa nell’Ital...
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...
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 ...