Today I will tell you how to prepare the “Fiorentina“, the rinomated typical florentine plate, a thick beef steak with well cooked outside and with blood inside. Of course we talk about beef, possibly Chianina.  The key issue is the cut, the loin should be with fillet and sirloin and with white fat (the t-bone [...]

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). [...]

Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman. The boy’s mother has died, and he is raised by an Englishwoman in pre world war II Fascist Italy. Living to each other in Florence, and presided over by an ambassador’s widow, a group of Englishwomen [...]