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Showing posts with label Petrarch. Show all posts

25 November 2018

Amalfi destroyed by tsunami

Quake beneath Tyrrhenian Sea sparked killer wave Today Amalfi is a tranquil town with a peaceful harbour - a far cry from the devastat...

10 October 2018

Andrea Zanzotto - poet

Writer drew inspiration from landscapes of Veneto Andrea Zanzotto wrote 15 volumes of poetry during his active career, while also teac...

17 November 2017

Bronzino – master of Mannerism

Florentine became Medici court painter Bronzino's portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, with her son...

27 October 2016

Roberto Benigni - Oscar winner

How Life is Beautiful made Tuscan actor and director famous Roberto Benigni Roberto Benigni, whose performance in the 1997 film L...

14 September 2016

Dante Alighieri – poet

Famous son of Florence remains in exile Sandro Botticelli's portrait of Dante, painted in 1495 Dante Alighieri, an important poet...

19 July 2016

Petrarch – Renaissance poet

Writer whose work inspired the modern Italian language Francesco Petrarca Renaissance scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca died on th...

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