This week has been sad.. Monicelli died. He was 95 and very ill. He commited suicide. On November 29, 2010, in the evening, in the urology department of the San Giovanni Hospital in Rome he jumped down from the window of his room, on the fifth floor of the hospital. In front of me pass [...]
Margherita Hack was born in Florence on June 12, 1922. She is an Italian, tuscan astrophysicist and science writer. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honor. I love this marvellous woman, so intelligent and open minded and with typical tuscan sense of humour. She administered the Trieste Astronomical Observatory from [...]
Roberto Benigni is an italian comedian, actor, screenwriter and film, theatre and television director. He was born on 27 October 1952, in Tuscany, in Maciano La Misericordi (Castiglion Fiorentino) son of Isolina Papini, a fabric inspector, and Remigio Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer. Benigni is probably best known outside Italy for his tragicomedy “Life [...]
If you love basket, maybe you already know, that in Siena there is a wonderful basket team: the Mens Sana Basket! at the moment, I think it is the strongest italian basket team. It is sponsored by the siennese bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena. In the past, I had the opportunity of knowing the [...]
Leonardo is a universal celebrity of italian Renaissance. He was born in Vinci in 1452 and died in Amboise (France) in 1512. He was an italian artist, scientist, a painter and a universal talent . His most famous masterpies, La Gioconda or Mona Lisa (in English).. other works are all around the world, in San [...]
According to Dante, Cimabue was the greatest painter of the period antecedent to Giotto. He was born in Florence in 1240 and died in Pisa in 1302. He painted the Basilica di San Francesco, Basilica Superiore, in Assisi and in the Basilica Inferiore painted a Maestà con San Francesco. In Florence you can admire a [...]
Giotto is one of the most famous tuscan painters in the whole history. He was born in Vespignano (Mugello area, Florence) in 1267 and died in Florence in january 1337. Probably his teacher was another famous tuscan painter: Cimabue, but this is not proved. His masterpiece is the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua (Padova, Italy). [...]
Un Amore così Grande Sento sul viso il tuo respiro, cara come sei tu dolce sempre di piu’ per quello che mi dai io ti ringrazierei ma poi non so parlare.E’ piu’ vicino il tuo profumo, stringiti forte a me non chiederti perche’, la sera scende gia’ la notte impazziro’ In fondo agli occhi tuoi [...]
Gianna Nannini is an italian singer, born in Siena in 1956. She is the daughter of a famous family in Siena: the Nannini. The grandfather did the first pastry in Siena, the father made a fortune with siennese cakes, the brother was a famous Formula1 driver and now is handling the pastries, while she moved [...]
