Italy On This Day

Fascinating stories from each day of the year about the people and events that have shaped the culture and history of Italy

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Showing posts with label Castello Sforzesco. Show all posts

5 March 2025

Launch of Corriere della Sera

Italy’s biggest-selling daily newspaper The first edition of Corriere della Sera , published 149 years ago Corriere della Sera, one of Italy...

3 January 2024

Beatrice d’Este – Duchess of Milan

The brief life of a politically astute noblewoman from Ferrara Beatrice D'Este, portrayed in a painting by the 19th century Italian arti...

24 January 2020

Galeazzo Maria Sforza - Duke of Milan

Effective leader with dark side Piero Pollaiuolo's portrait of Galeazzo, which is kept by Uffizi in Florence Galeazzo Maria Sfo...

16 February 2019

Achille Castiglioni - designer

Leading figure in post-war Italian style Achille Castiglioni regarded furniture-making as art The designer Achille Castiglioni, whos...

27 May 2017

Lucrezia Crivelli – lady in waiting

Mystery of the beautiful woman in painting by Leonardo For many years, it was assumed the woman in Da Vinci's La belle Ferronniè...

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