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News - 3 Ottobre 2020

After the Disastrous Presidential Debate We’re Better Off Sticking with Machiavelli

In Italiano The US presidential election is just over a month away and the eyes of the world are on that fateful moment that has the potential to change the destinies of millions of people far beyond the borders of the United States. The almost unanimous reaction after the first debate on Tuesday was one […]

Arts - 28 Giugno 2020

Museo degli Innocenti: Entrepreneurs Who Donated Beauty Even to the Most Humble

The silk makers were well travelled business people, but they were also conscious of their responsibilities and believed that the poor, in this case the abandoned children, had as much right to beauty as others. They entrusted the responsibility for the construction of the institution to Filippo Brunelleschi. It would be as if today the Italian Merchants Association, la Confindustria, entrusted a project for the welcoming of migrants to Renzo Piano.

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Arts - 20 Maggio 2020

The Uffizi’s Latest Purchase: A Rare Panoramic Print of Renaissance Florence

At the end of April, about a week after his press conference with Stampa Estera on Facebook, Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries, announced the purchase of a very rare print: a panoramic view of Renaissance Florence dating to 1601. “The Uffizi”,” he explained, “had recently bought it from an antiquarian map dealer in […]

1. Plinio Nomellini, Gioia tirrena, 1914

Arts - 23 Settembre 2019

Isadora Duncan Exhibits Herself…with Her Usual Panache

Isadora improvised, following precise guidelines, listening to her body…She danced with her joyfully turgid body, barefoot, wrapped in a Hellenistic peplos, and with movement inspired by the undulating motion of sea waves and the flight of birds….enjoying both controversy and success everywhere she danced.

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New York - 17 Giugno 2019

Sisters in Liberty: the Florentine ‘Lady of Freedom’ Will Come to Visit Her NY Twin

The "twin" statue in Florence is the work of the sculptor Pio Fedi, completed in 1883, and it’s part of the funeral monument to Giovan Battista Niccolini, an almost unknown poet of the Risorgimento period. It represents the Freedom of Poetry and it‘s located on the counter-façade of the Basilica of Santa Croce.

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People - 11 Giugno 2019

Evolving Perspectives on America and the World During Study Abroad

I believe that contemplating the U.S from an ocean away allowed me to make more logical conclusions about my homeland and how I felt about it. Prime Minister Renzi’s resignation, which came just one month after the election of Trump, set the stage for a surge of populism in Italy and also allowed me to consider the Trump phenomenon from a broader, world perspective. This was fundamental to my understanding of American politics in the global context

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Arts - 25 Marzo 2019

Verrocchio, the Sculptor, the Painter and the Master of Leonardo

In spite of Vasari’s admiration and Verrocchio’s importance as a teacher, up-to-now there has never been an exhibition devoted to him. The event in the Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Bargello aims to bring valuable insight into the early influence of Florence and of Verrocchio and his workshop on Leonardo’s oeuvre (seven on display here). The National Gallery in Washington D.C. will host a smaller, especially curated version, of the show from 29 September 2019 to 2 February 2020.

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Arts - 6 Ottobre 2017

Marlene Luce Tremblay: The Artist Who Brings Ancient Egypt to Florence

East meets West as images from one of the most ancient, mystical civilizations, come to the cobble-stoned streets of the Medieval city of Florence, the city of Dante and Boccaccio. "The Florence Biennale is very meaningful to me for I believe that art can contribute to a cultural rapprochement and can carry messages, that are beyond the political narrative," Marlene Luce Tremblay said.

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News - 9 Settembre 2017

Two American Students Allege Rape by Carabinieri in Florence

Italian military police is under investigation after two American girls reported being raped by two officers after a ride home from a nightclub. My friend had already left in a cab when “the officers offered them a ride”, she said, referring to the victims of the attack. There has yet been no conviction for the two men under investigation, but it is still clear that for a long while neither I, nor any of my friends, will be accepting rides from Carabinieri.

GIovanni Sartori

People - 6 Aprile 2017

Giovanni Sartori, Florentine Political Scientist, Hence Global Mind

Few of us have used prose as originally, as brilliantly or sometimes as sarcastically as Giovanni Sartori. No other contemporary political scientist has seen his most pointed and penetrating verbal thrusts carefully collected and reproduced on the Internet. Sartori was very much like the rest of us, that is only human. And thus he could err.

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