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A chat between Sappho and Ovid

The Uffizi

A chat between Sappho and Ovid

For the European Archeology Days we listened to the Latin chatter of two ancient heads, identified at the time with the portrait of the poet Ovid a...
"Between forest and stars"

Boboli Gardens

"Between forest and stars"

The itinerant performance produced by the Uffizi Galleries and put on in the Boboli Gardens on 6 September 2021, on the occasion of the 700th anniv...
The Gate of Hell. Paolo and Francesca

Boboli Gardens

The Gate of Hell. Paolo and Francesca

The Gate of Hell warns sinners. It was created by God and is still without doors because Christ unhinged it when he went down to Limbo to bring out...
Harpy and the hanged man

Boboli Gardens

Harpy and the hanged man

Circle VII, Ring II. In the forest of suicides, the Harpies tear apart the "violent against themselves" and the profligates
The sodomites, politicians and captains: Iacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi

Boboli Gardens

The sodomites, politicians and captains: Iacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi

Circle VII, Ring III. The "violent against nature" are condemned to be burnt by a firestorm
The usurers: Reginaldo degli Scrovegni

Boboli Gardens

The usurers: Reginaldo degli Scrovegni

Circle VII, Ring III. "The violent against art" are those who operated aginst work and honest jobs protected by God. They crouch down under a rain...
The simoniacs: Pope Nicholas III

Boboli Gardens

The simoniacs: Pope Nicholas III

Circle VIII, Bolgia III. The simoniacs are those who bought or sold Church offices or pardons. In the Inferno, their attachment to earthly possessi...
The grafters: Ciampolo

Boboli Gardens

The grafters: Ciampolo

Circle VIII (Malebolge), bolgia V. The grafters (also the historical Dante was unjustly accused of such crime) are immersed in boiling pitch and to...
The thieves: Vanni Fucci

Boboli Gardens

The thieves: Vanni Fucci

Circle VIII (Malebolge), bolgia VII. The thieves run naked and terrified in the midst of horrifying snakes of all kinds, whose monstruosity is unkn...
Sowers of discord and Schismatics

Boboli Gardens

Sowers of discord and Schismatics

Circle VIII, Bolgia IX. "The disgusting mode of the ninth Bolgia" consists in torturing those who worked to tear apart the given order (religious, ...
Montespertoli and the Valdelsa

Terre degli Uffizi

Montespertoli and the Valdelsa

The Valdelsa, set in the heart of Tuscany, is home to some of the region's most typical features. Its rolling, vine-covered hills are crossed by th...
Anghiari and the Valtiberina

Terre degli Uffizi

Anghiari and the Valtiberina

Anghiari sits on a hill in the upper valley of the Tiber in Tuscany. The town, with numerous buildings surviving from its medieval and Renaissance ...
Castiglion Fiorentino and the Valdichiana

Terre degli Uffizi

Castiglion Fiorentino and the Valdichiana

Castiglion Fiorentino and La Verna are two towns set between the Casentino and the Valdichiana containing numerous features recalling episodes in t...
Dante and San Godenzo

Terre degli Uffizi

Dante and San Godenzo

Nature meets history in the town of San Godenzo, which arose around the eponymous abbey sitting on the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna
Poppi and the Casentino

Terre degli Uffizi

Poppi and the Casentino

The presence of the Counts Guidi has marked the face of Poppi, their castle with its tall tower lording it over the valley of the Casentino
The traitors to their kindred: Camicion de'Pazzi and Sassol Mascheroni

Boboli Gardens

The traitors to their kindred: Camicion de'Pazzi and Sassol Mascheroni

Circle IX, Caina region. The damned in the first part of the circle, called Caina after the name of the Biblical fratricide, are condemned to be im...
The traitors to their country: Bocca degli Abati

Boboli Gardens

The traitors to their country: Bocca degli Abati

Circle IX circle, Antenora region. Those who made an agreement with enemies against their own party or country - as the Trojan Antenor did with the...
The Shores of Purgatory. The penitents' souls and Casella

Boboli Gardens

The Shores of Purgatory. The penitents' souls and Casella

The Canto II of Purgatory begins with the Celestial Pilot who ferries the souls of the dead in the grace of God, from the mouth of the Tiber to the...
The contumacious and excommunicated: Manfredi

Boboli Gardens

The contumacious and excommunicated: Manfredi

At the foot of the mountain Dante meets the souls of those who have died after being excommunicated and have to wait thirty times the time they hav...
A fight in the Tribune

The Uffizi

A fight in the Tribune

On the occasion of World Latin Language Day, our marbles return to tell and tell about themselves using the language of Rome
Dante and Andrea del Castagno in San Godenzo

The Uffizi

Dante and Andrea del Castagno in San Godenzo

Video in Italian | The famous fresco by Andrea del Castagno depicting Dante Alighieri exhibited in San Godenzo, birthplace of its author, to celebr...
Those who died by violence, but repentant: Iacopo del Cassero

Boboli Gardens

Those who died by violence, but repentant: Iacopo del Cassero

On the second spur of the Antepurgatory, those who repented immediately before being killed sing the Psalm of Miserere pleading for God's mercy and...
Those who died by violence, but repentant: Bonconte da Montefeltro

Boboli Gardens

Those who died by violence, but repentant: Bonconte da Montefeltro

In the second spur of the Antipurgatory, Dante also meets Bonconte da Montefeltro whose corpse, mortally wounded in the Battle of Campaldino, was d...
Those who died by violence, but repentant: Pia de'Tolomei

Boboli Gardens

Those who died by violence, but repentant: Pia de'Tolomei

Among the repentant who died by murder, there is also Pia de'Tolomei, defenestrated, according to tradition, by her husband, perhaps to punish her ...