Filippo Pigafetta and 16th-century Vicenza culture In 2022, the 500th anniversary of Antonio Pigafetta's first trip around the world...

Valerio Belli in the Vicenza culture of the 1500s Valerio Belli was born in Vicenza in 1468 to a rich Milanese family; he learned the art...

The Manneken-Pis is a bronze statue of a puer minges, about fifty centimeters high, located in the historic center of Brussels. This...

Corte dei Roda Contrà S. Andrea, so called due to the existence in medieval times of a small church dedicated to the saint. Someone...

Egidio Di Velo in the Vicenza culture of the nineteenth century Count Girolamo Egidio di Velo was born in Vicenza in 1792 from a noble...

VICENZA IN THE CENTER VICENZA IN THE CENTER IN THE CENTER In its tenth year of life it wants to be a community more than ever. Every day...

A square, a city ... beautiful A square, a city ... beautiful between beautiful and beautiful there is a difference. I am referring to...

Monte Crocetta a hill a stones throw from the city. A mini emotional paradise that in this period of pandemic closures was "discovered"...

My home! Very funny, really. In the eighteenth-century guides for the first English tourists, this house of mine must have been,...

My only Veronese palace, in the heart of the ancient city, a stone's throw from Porta Iovia (today Borsari). Contrada S. Marco was a...

My Veronese villa, proof that even as an old man - yes, by now I was - I still knew how to innovate. Until the end. It is not only that...

In a few years since the beginning of my education, the word had begun to spread, and this was my first villa for a Venetian family: the...

Mine or not mine? Mine in any case, to the extent that mine is the “Palladian” style that was already beginning to be imitated in my...

Domenico Bollani was an important official of the Serenissima. Ambassador to London in those same years of Daniele Barbaro, later mayor...

My first villa! I was still collaborating with the Pedemuro workshop, the most renowned construction company in Vicenza, as a specialist...

What Giangiorgio Trissino had been in the first part of my story, the Barbaro brothers were in the second. Among the most important...

The "Magnifico Signor Francesco Badoero", actually not as important as the surname he bore, had joined with a Loredàn, thus inheriting...

Enlightened patrician from Vicenza, I am honored to have been a great friend of Giacomo Angarano, who hosted the wedding of my daughter...

The pride of my life: the most important public work of the city that adopted me. Not Sansovino, not Sanmicheli, not Giulio Romano. Among...

I was finishing the illustration of Daniele Barbaro's work, the translation and commentary of Vitruvius's De Architectura, when I was...