Italy History and Culture Podcast

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The Wild Art of Antonio Ligabue

Antonio Ligabue is a self-taught artist who primarily paints wild and exotic creatures. The artist used his artwor...

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June 09, 2022

Borges' Mysterious Maze in Venice

The Borges Labyrinth is a replica of the labyrinth constructed in honor of the famed Argentine writer Jorge Luis B...

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May 26, 2022

The Bizarre Drawings of the Renaissance...

Amico Aspertini was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor whose complicated, eccentric, and eclectic style f...

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May 26, 2022

The wild wolf population in Italy is in...

The wolf population in Italy is made up of 3,300 individuals who live in the Alps and Apennines mountain ranges. S...

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May 26, 2022

Etymology of the word “Ciao”

Ciao is the most popular informal and friendly greeting in Italian, and it may be used to say "hi" or "goodbye." &...

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May 15, 2022

The Anatomical Machines of the Prince o...

The anatomical machines, which are on display in Naples' Cappella Sansevero, are two anatomical models that reprod...

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May 06, 2022

The Luigi Broglio Space Center in Kenya

The Luigi Broglio space facility in Malindi, Kenya, is an Italian space center maintained by the Italian Space Age...

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May 03, 2022

Lucian of Samosata's 'A True Story': Th...

Lucian of Samosata's A True Story is the first known work of science fiction. The novel is a satire and the first ...

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April 30, 2022

The genetic profile of the ancient Roma...

The DNA of the Romans has changed over time following the evolution of the historical phases that have marked the ...

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January 13, 2022

The Benandanti: Witchcraft and Agrarian...

A trial for heresy of two peasants reveals a pagan-shamanic  peasant cult based on the fertility of the land ...

00:36:05

January 10, 2022

The Complex Cosmogony of a Sixteenth-Ce...

On September 28, 1583, Menocchio, an Italian miller, was denounced to the Holy Office on the charge of having utte...

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January 04, 2022

Giovanni Bugatti, Mastro Titta, the exe...

He became an executioner at the age of 17, in 1796. Bugatti noted 516 names of the executed, but two convicts are ...

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January 04, 2022

The Sator Square: SATOR, AREPO, TENET, ...

The Sator Square has been the subject of frequent archaeological discoveries, both in stone epigraphs and in graff...

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January 04, 2022

The Curious Story of the Nemi Ships bui...

The Nemi ships had been built by Emperor Caligula, in honor of the Egyptian goddess Isis and Diana, goddess of wil...

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January 03, 2022

The bizarre story of the Chronovisor, a...

The chronovisor (or chronoscope) is allegedly a functional time viewer, an hypothetical device capable of capturin...

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January 03, 2022

The bizarre history of the Republic of ...

The Republic of Rose Island was the name given to an artificial platform of 400 m² that stood in the Adriatic Sea...

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January 03, 2022

The Mithraeum of San Clemente in Rome: ...

The Mithraeum is a building from the Roman imperial period buried several meters below the Basilica of San Clement...

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January 03, 2022

The Origins of the Story of Romeo and J...

The story of Romeo and Juliet is told in Historia novellamente ritrovata di due nobili amanti, written betwee...

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January 03, 2022

The Bizarre Festival of the Snake-Catch...

The festival of the snake-catchers involves a procession carrying the statue of St. Dominic, draped with living sn...

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January 03, 2022

Codex Seraphinianus, the Bizarre Encycl...

The book is composed by 360 pages and it’s written in a cipher alphabet in an imaginary language. This episode i...

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January 02, 2022

The legendary sword in the stone of San...

The sword in the stone: San Galgano Abbey in Tuscany This episode is also available as a blog post: https://weirdi...

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January 02, 2022

The Royal Palace of Caserta

The Royal Palace of Caserta was the largest palace in Europe and a perfect example of Baroque art style. This epis...

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January 02, 2022

Castel del Monte, the Fortress of Myste...

Castel del Monte was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as “a unique masterpiece of medieval military archite...

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January 02, 2022

The submerged Belltower of Curon

The pleasant village of Graun, in Italian Curon Venosta, is  located in the heart of the tourist region Val V...

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January 02, 2022

Christ of the Abyss, a submerged bronze...

The statue was born from an idea by Duilio Marcante following the death of Dario Gonzatti, one of the pioneers of ...

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January 02, 2022

The story of Leonarda Cianciulli, the w...

Leonarda Cianciulli, the Soapmaker of Correggio This episode is also available as a blog post: https://weirditaly....

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January 02, 2022

The story of Giovanni Aldini: the scien...

Giovanni Aldini was an Italian physicist born at Bologna, nephew of Luigi Galvani, and he became a professor of ph...

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January 02, 2022

The story of Ugolino, the Cannibal Coun...

In Dante’s Inferno (Canto XXXIII, the level of hell where the traitors  were punished) he has been describe...

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January 02, 2022

What is everybody’s natural language?...

Throughout history were conducted experiments involving language deprivation trying to discover the origin of lang...

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January 02, 2022

The museum of the mummies of Ferentillo

The Museum of mummies is a museum located in Ferentillo that exhibits the ancient mummies of the inhabitants of th...

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January 02, 2022

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