Giacomo Casanova is often portrayed as a Don Juan obsessed with sexual performance, a cynical and immoral dissimulator: this probably...

Catherine Cornaro's story is closely linked to the wishes of her father: the ambitious Venetian patrician Marco Cornaro, who gave the...

Venice and Florence, for many centuries rivaled as two world capitals of art, references in all the great arts: in painting,...

At least once in your life you can hear them say to you: << Don't be a godwit! >>. The origin of the term is linked to a typical figure...

When the event known as "Vespro" or "Vespers" is mentioned in the pages of history, one immediately thinks of the paintings of the...

"Once upon a time, there was a young Tuscan shepherd who, to escape boredom, drew sheep on rocks. One day, he was admired by Cimabue, the...

There was a Paduan man, in the 1500s, who was a philosopher, man of letters and pupil of Pomponazzi in Bologna: this was Sperone Speroni....

A letter that seems similar to many others can surprise and turn out to be something very special and interesting. Like this Sicilian...

Who, coming or living in Padua, has never heard of the Botanical Garden? It should be known that the oldest vegetable garden in the world...

In 1506, the Venetian Pietro Bembo, an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, moved to Urbino. In Urbino he met...

Fire, flames, smoke: a burning of forbidden tomes. The time is that of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, its protagonists are...

Galileo Galilei spent eighteen years in Venice, from 1592 to 1610, which he would later remember as the best years of his life. During...

Back in 1588, a young girl who had recently become sixteen, named Dorina, met a beautiful girl on the street, completely dressed in...

He was born in Vicenza in 1842. In his youth he lived first in Turin, where he graduated in law, then in Milan, where he came into...

Few people know that 25 million Italians, of which almost 5 million were Venetians, left their country after the unification of Italy to...

The Scrovegni Chapel has a certain Dantean character, but is it true that Dante joined his compatriot Giotto here in Padua? It is almost...

The potato grown in the lagoon areas of the Veneto, as well as in the mountain areas or the Vicenza plateau, also has its own history,...

In 1805: Da Ponte leaves for New York to... escape his London creditors. In fact he goes to America to try to start again, with his wife...

On October 7, 1571, the sea was covered with fire and blood, while corpses and debris of galleys were carried away by the swell, at the...

Dante lived in Verona during his exile with the Della Scala family between 1312 and 1320. The Della Scala family, also known as the...