Florence and tourism in COVID time
We all know too well that our lives have radically changed starting from February 2020 and the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. This post is an account of how COVID…
WWII and Liberation in Florence
Italy’s Liberation Day (Festa della Liberazione), or simply April 25 is a national Italian holiday commemorating the end of the Italian Civil War (started September 8th 1943) and the end…
Leonardo, Vasari and Dan Brown
Federico Giannini is a young art historian who wrote this article on his popular website Finestre sull’arte (and who kindly allowed us to translate it. If you read Italian you…
April Blood
It is April 26th 1478 and the setting is the Duomo of Santa Maria del Fiore where a mass is being celebrated. The Medici have been in charge of the…
Machiavelli’s Prince 1513-2013
On February 19th Florence celebrated the 500th anniversary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s imprisonment with an historical parade that followed his footsteps from via Guicciardini, where Machiavelli lived, to the Palazzo Vecchio,…