Casanova and Turin
Giacomo Casanova is often portrayed as a Don Juan obsessed with sexual performance, a cynical and immoral dissimulator: this probably...
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Dec 23, 20211 min read
Catherine Cornaro : The last queen of Cyprus
Catherine Cornaro's story is closely linked to the wishes of her father: the ambitious Venetian patrician Marco Cornaro, who gave the...
Dec 20, 20211 min read
The italian Renaissance
Venice and Florence, for many centuries rivaled as two world capitals of art, references in all the great arts: in painting,...
Dec 15, 20212 min read
The forgotten craft of the Godwit
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...
Dec 13, 20211 min read
The Venetian Francesco Hayez
When the event known as "Vespro" or "Vespers" is mentioned in the pages of history, one immediately thinks of the paintings of the...
Dec 9, 20211 min read
Giotto: the legend
"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...
Dec 7, 20212 min read
The philosopher with the fine judgment
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....
Dec 2, 20211 min read
Letters from the South
A letter that seems similar to many others can surprise and turn out to be something very special and interesting. Like this Sicilian...
Nov 29, 20211 min read
Horti simplicium
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...
Nov 25, 20211 min read
From Venice to Urbino
In 1506, the Venetian Pietro Bembo, an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, moved to Urbino. In Urbino he met...
Nov 19, 20212 min read
Heretic Veneto
Fire, flames, smoke: a burning of forbidden tomes. The time is that of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, its protagonists are...
Nov 17, 20211 min read
Between science and church
Galileo Galilei spent eighteen years in Venice, from 1592 to 1610, which he would later remember as the best years of his life. During...
Nov 15, 20212 min read
The Fairies of Beauty
Back in 1588, a young girl who had recently become sixteen, named Dorina, met a beautiful girl on the street, completely dressed in...
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Fogazzaro
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...
Nov 11, 20211 min read
The history of immigrants from Treviso around the world during 20th century
Few people know that 25 million Italians, of which almost 5 million were Venetians, left their country after the unification of Italy to...
Nov 9, 20211 min read
Dante Alighieri and his stay in Padua
The Scrovegni Chapel has a certain Dantean character, but is it true that Dante joined his compatriot Giotto here in Padua? It is almost...
Nov 8, 20212 min read
Of tubers and patricians
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,...
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Little Glorious Journey to America
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...
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Religious Seaquake
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...
Nov 2, 20211 min read
The Supreme Poet in Verona
Dante lived in Verona during his exile with the Della Scala family between 1312 and 1320. The Della Scala family, also known as the...
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