It is not easy to reconstruct the life of the great explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, given the numerous difficulties encountered in his historiography entailing lost or counterfeited documents, misunderstandings...
It is not easy to reconstruct the life of the great explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, given the numerous difficulties encountered in his historiography entailing lost or counterfeited documents, misunderstandings...
The life of Amerigo Vespucci is an adventure that, starting from the city of Florence in the fifteenth-century, stretches to the the extreme limits of the known earth. In this fictional autobiography,...
For centuries, the Chimera represented Arezzo and its citizens. The great bronze sculpture symbolizes strength, courage, and grace, and seems to go back to the works of the ancient Etruscan and Greek...
Johann Caspar Goethe (1710-1782) is known almost exclusively as the father of the more famous Johann Wolfgang. Only few, therefore, know that in 1740 he undertook an eight-month journey through Italy,...
In this essay, the archaeologist Barbro Santillo Frizell analyzes the concept of “Etruscan identity”, the theories on both the origin and end of this civilization and the recent contribution of molecular bioarchaeology to Etruscology.
This essay revolves around one of the many questions raised by da Vinci's Annunciation masterpiece: the interpretative enigma concerning the open page of the sacred codex that the Virgin is reading when she is suddenly distracted by the angel’s arrival.
This book tells the story of the Medici, offering a varied and fascinating portrait of this great dynasty, tracing its origins back to the Middle Ages and dwelling on its most famous exponents, by now emblematic figures in the collective imagination.
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