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Il Celebre Paesaggio di Leonardo Da Vinci del 5 Agosto 1473 rappresenta la...
Al Museo degli Uffizi di Firenze si conserva un celebre schizzo eseguito da Leonardo Da Vinci. Questo viene considerato importantissimo per vari motivi, che andremo qui di seguito ad analizzare. Si...
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Bernardo Bembo has nothing to do with the Lichtenstein Lady by Leonardo Da...
The Lichtenstein Lady It is also known as the Ginevra de’ Benci at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and it is seen by most of art critics as the first portrait created by a 22 years old...
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Alessandro Carrera – Good Mo(u)rning, Italy
Alessandro Carrera Dear friends of Radio B39, my programme «Good Mo(u)rning, Italy» is back with a new episode, which will be broadcast soon. This time I’ll be in the company of a very welcome guest: I...
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An old Mona Lisa beneath the visible Mona Lisa? According to the BBC…
The current view on the Mona Lisa is that Leonardo Da Vinci had worked at the painting between 1503 and 1519, first in Florence and later in France. There has long been debate about the Mona Lisa’s...
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The many facets of immigration – I volti dell’immigrazione by Francesca Toffanin
Leggi in italiano Immigration. It is a word on everyone’s lips that today more than ever is taking on different meanings, even if it should not. After all, if we read its definition in the old and...
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Santo Agostinho e “anjo dos leprosos” chegam ao cinema e televisão
P. Gaetano Nicosia | D.R. Source: http://www.snpcultura.org/ From Secretariado Nacional da Pastoral da Cultura – Uma longa-metragem dedicada à vida de Santo Agostinho (354-430) está a ser preparada no...
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A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) messed me up some. I didn’t know him, even if I’m slowly trying to retrace all the pieces and writers who have won the Pulitzer Prize. It is a hard job, I have to say,...
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A new Mona Lisa discovered in a private collection in St. Petersburg.
News and discoveries on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa seem never ending. It has been announced a few days ago that a team of experts are analyzing a new version of it kept in a private collection in...
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A Special Christmas Tree
I had been flying for thirteen hours into Milan and queuing in the traffic jam to reach my little town and visit my family for the Christmas holidays, only to find out that the dead, dry pine tree of...
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2015: Our figures, our deeds
In 2015, our cultural platform peaked with a huge number of more than 4,972,000 hits in the year (which means an average of more than 471,000 hits per month), more than 817,000 pages read (an average...
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Travelling through the land and pages of Sri Lanka: Michael Ondaatje’s...
There is without any doubt great truth in a sentence, which is very dear to me, from William Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Gentleman in The Parlour’ ‘I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by...
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Psychic decomposition
NGC 290 open cluster Music like mouth dribble: and the sky swells from the cries of madmen, their gaze is wind lost in the labyrinth of stars. Every word is a star glistening saliva: and turbulent...
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A New Hypothesis on Leonardo’s Mona Lisa
The priest Antonio de Beatis kept a diary during his grand tour of Europe, which he started on 9 May 1517 together with his superior, Cardinal Luigi D’Aragona, a bastard with royal blood. The two men...
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Speaking of plagiarism: the Marseillaise, France’s National hymn.
The Marseillaise is universally considered the greatest and best known national anthem in the world. Gian Battista Viotti But few people know that is actually the result of an act of plagiarism,...
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Don’t kill my pastasciutta
I always say that in Singapore I usually eat better than in Hong Kong, especially Italian cuisine – not to mention Sardinian cuisine, which is almost absent in Hong Kong. I feel that in Singapore –...
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Leonardo’s Mona Lisa was painted in 1478. Not in 1504 nor in 1514.
Graphic elaboration: beyondthirtynine. In a previous post we were discussing about the possibility that Leonardo’s Mona Lisa could have been painted much earlier than thought. Not in 1503/1504 – during...
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Article on OEN about Viotti writing the Marseillaise.
My article on an American magazine about the musical score of the Marseillaises having been taken by Rouget De L’Isle from the Italian Gian Battista Viotti, when he composed the famous song which is...
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Mausoleo d’Augusto. Siamo ancora fermi al Palo!
Le scuderie di Augusto verranno ricoperte. Si pensava d’essere vicini all’inizio del restauro, ma all’apertura delle offerte delle imprese concorrenti si e’ scoperto che molte fra queste erano troppo...
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The Miraculous History of China’s two Palace Museums by Mark O’Neill
The Miraculous History of China’s two Palace Museums a new book by Mark O’Neill. We meet Mark O’Neill at a restaurant in Causeway Bay for a dinner organised by our friend Albert Lin. It is a convivial...
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Three Easy Pieces
My book ranking. While organising my new bookshelves, out of curiosity, I tried to find a method of understanding my preferences in authors and novels over the years. Since these books were collected...
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