Florence and the colleague of Saint John the Baptist II part
…after. In the Middle Ages, most of the historical events that marked a city were documented and described in the annals or official chronicles. Considerable the fact that all these...
Author: Irene Martinelli
Florence and the colleague of Saint John the Baptist. I part.
Each city has its own protective figure. However it may happen that for some cities one is not enough and the adoption of several saints is needed in the form...
The suspended silence of the cloister of oranges in the Florentine noise
Is it possible, today, that in Florence, in the city center, there still exists today a place that keeps a mystical silence? The city of Florence is a concentration of...
Michelangelo and the florentin unwelcome visitor
The Florentines, as we know, are known for their rather controversial and ironic character at the same time. In confirm of this aspect, in Florence circulates a legend that would...
Galileo Galilei and the Palace of the “Cartelloni” in Florence
In Florence, each stone has its history and each palace has a Florentine memory to transmit. On the site of the house of the family that commissioned Leonardo da Vinci...
Leonardo da Vinci and the Code Leicester à Florence
One of the most famous manuscripts written by the Florentine Leonardo da Vinci, who has already been defined as the Genio Universale, has returned to Florence for a temporary exhibition...
The sustainable lightness of the Marina Abramović
Provocative and audacious, free and restless, contesting and contested. These are just some of the adjectives that could define the complex, composite and articulated personality of Marina Abramović. At Palazzo Strozzi the...
The hidden detail of the Porcellino Loggia
Among the various characteristics of us Florentines, one of the most important is that the rules must be respected. Based on this purpose, since the Middle Ages, every transgression was severely...
Michelangelo and the grave in front of him
In Florence the church of Santa Croce rightly has the name of Pantheon of the Italians. Built for the Franciscan order to suffer from the second half of the eighteenth...
The Florentine welcome by Davizzi
Since the Middle Ages, in Florence, the great noble families of the city devised different ways to highlight their prestigious presence in society. But of all, the Davizzi family adopted...