Calcio Fiorentino, what is it, images and history of the ancestor of football
Calcio Fiorentino (also known as Calcio Storico) is a sport that recalls a game called harpastum in Latin is an early form of soccer (football … Read more
Beauty of Baroque Style: Villa Garzoni at Collodi
Villa Garzoni or Garzoni Garden was built before 1652 by the Garzoni family, near their old castle, which stands slightly apart and is a beautiful … Read more
Montecristo Island Nature Reserve
A small island full of history: Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, hermits, prisoners inhabitated this island for more than 3000 years before to become a nature reserve.
The sword in the stone: San Galgano Abbey in Tuscany
San Galgano is Cistercians abbey not far from Siena, in Chiusdino area. The site is composed by a big abbey, now in ruins, and by the Hermitage (Rotonda di Montesiepi), the religious retreat.
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42 astonishing Dante’s Inferno illustrations by Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was a French artist, illustrator and sculptor.
In Italy, he gained endless fame because of his beautiful illustrations of Dante’s Divina Commedia.
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Vie Cave: Ancient paths of Etruscan people carved into the rocks
An impressive Etruscan road network, vertically carved into the tuff (sometimes 6 meters high), links Pitigliano, Sovana and Sorano, in Maremma, Tuscany.
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Ugolino, the Cannibal Count
‘Father our pain’, they said,
‘Will lessen if you eat us you are the one
Who clothed us with this wretched flesh: we plead
For you to be the one who strips it away’.
… And I,
Already going blind, groped over my brood
Calling to them, though I had watched them die,
For two long days. And then the hunger had more
Power than even sorrow over me
(Canto XXXIII, ln.)