The ways of silence - Finestre sull'Arte

Sumptuous and cloistered. The Castle of Moncalieri

A half-meter hole in the woodwork, plaster surfacing under the wood, the jambs blackened by the marks of the flames that rise and engulf, engulf, devastate. Restorers wanted to leave clearly visible, in the room that precedes Victor Emmanuel II's dre...
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Death and Rebirth. Among the Halls of the Fortress of Fontanellato.

Misinformation, easy to find in some early twentieth-century articles, reports that a masterpiece by Parmigianino, the portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale that today can be admired at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples, was seized by the Farnese...
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In Lunigiana, inside churches that hide traces of the struggles between Christians and pagans

Bare, severe, devoid of any ornamentation. The small church of San Giorgio that stands in the lower part of the charming Filattiera, in Lunigiana, is a large pile of squared ashlars, a heap of stones that shortly after the year 1000 were stacked on t...
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In the village of Trebiano Magra, where according to legend the manuscript of the Divine Comedy is hidden.

As soon as one walks down the alleys of Trebiano Magra, the silence is interrupted here and there only by the occasional meow. There is calm everywhere, even if summer is in its prime, even if it is morning and the Val di Magra sun has not yet begun ...
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Tiarno di Sopra and Tiarno di Sotto, the two masterpiece villages in the middle of the mountains

To let people know it exists, they had to take it to a famous museum, a few kilometers downstream, to the Mart in Rovereto, and organize an exhibition all for it, after a restoration. Otherwise, Bernardo Strozzi's altarpiece would have continued to s...
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The church of Santa Maria in Castello in Tarquinia, the Romanesque that never stopped

"Lt. Mario d'Orazio, on Sept. 13, 1935 - XIII E.F. with a happy group visited, contemplated, and invoked mercy this now no longer sacred place." The inscription is inscribed on the marble of the ambo of Santa Maria in Castello, once covered with vari...
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Among the ruins of San Bruzio, an ancient monastery in the Tuscan Maremma.

Wind, cicadas, calm. The ruins of the monastery of San Bruzio stand on the rounded hump of a soft knoll, hidden among the fields, along the provincial road that leads from the castle of Marsiliana to the village of Magliano, still tightly packed in t...
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