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The Negligent Princes: Corrado Malaspina

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The Negligent Princes: Corrado Malaspina

In the valley of the negligent princes, Dante meets rulers and lords, who, in their lives, neglected their spiritual duties and political mission t...
The Proud: Oderisi da Gubbio

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The Proud: Oderisi da Gubbio

In the first cornice of Purgatory Dante meets the proud, forced to walk in a circle under the weight of huge stones while reciting Our Father. Oder...
The avaricious and prodigal: Pope Adrian V

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The avaricious and prodigal: Pope Adrian V

V Cornice. It is the only case in which sinners serve the same penalty albeit for opposite sins. Both the avaricious and the prodigal are bound wit...
The glottonous: Bonagiunta Orbicciani

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The glottonous: Bonagiunta Orbicciani

VI cornice. The gluttonous are tormented by a neverending hunger and thirst provoked by the scent of fruits hanging from two trees, and by the gush...
The lustful: Arnault Daniel

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The lustful: Arnault Daniel

VII cornice. Two groups of penitents walk in opposite directions and sing the hymn Summae Deus clementiae along a wall of flames, symbol of the lov...
The Earthly Paradise: Matelda

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The Earthly Paradise: Matelda

After entering the Garden of Eden, Dante sees Matelda on the opposite bank of the Lethe River that is preventing him to go on. Many critics have di...
The mystic procession and the apparition of Beatrice

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The mystic procession and the apparition of Beatrice

At the end of the Earthly Paradise, Dante meets Beatrice, surrounded by ranks of angels and clouds of flowers. She is seated on a triumphal chariot...
The Defective Spirits of Paradise: Piccarda Donati

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The Defective Spirits of Paradise: Piccarda Donati

In Paradise, in the first Sphere of the Moon, Dante addresses souls with an evanescent appearance like reflections of water. Among them is Piccarda...
The spirits of lovers: Folco of Marseilles

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The spirits of lovers: Folco of Marseilles

In the III Heaven of Paradise, the spirits of lovers sparkle, showing themselves as sparks of fire, who under the influence of Venus during their l...
The wise spirits: St. Thomas Aquinas

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The wise spirits: St. Thomas Aquinas

The fourth Heaven of Paradise is that of the Sun, symbol of science and knowledge since ancient times, which for this reason houses the wise spirit...
The wise spirits: St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

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The wise spirits: St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

In the same Heaven of the Sun, Dante also meets the spirit of Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, a refined theologian and leading figure of the so-ca...
Zelfira Tregulova presents the Museum of Russian Icons

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Zelfira Tregulova presents the Museum of Russian Icons

Video in Russian | The director of the Tret’yakov Gallery in Moscow, guest of the Uffizi Galleries, in occasion of the opening of the Museum of Rus...
The contemplative spirits: St. Benedict of Nursia

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The contemplative spirits: St. Benedict of Nursia

The 7th Heaven of Saturn hosts the contemplative spirits, those who in life was influenced by the planet that, according to medieval tradition, fac...
The face of Seneca

The face of Seneca

Alessandro Muscillo gives voice to the Pseudo-Seneca, the face that tradition has attributed to the philosopher.
The Three Fates by Salviati and Hesiod's Theogony

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The Three Fates by Salviati and Hesiod's Theogony

The words of the Greek writer to describe the artwork preserved in Pitti Palace
The myth of wine

The myth of wine

Alessandro Muscillo retraces the history of the "nectar of god" in Latin in the works of the Uffizi Galleries
Amerigo Vespucci at the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings

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Amerigo Vespucci at the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings

Andrew Chen, professor at the University of Texas, shows us the illustrations of the "interludes" (theatrical performances designed to entertain gu...
The Porcelain Museum

The Porcelain Museum

Video in Italian | On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, Valentina Conticelli invites us to discover the Porcelain Museum inside Boboli Ga...
Otto Marseus van Schrieck's Medusa and Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem

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Otto Marseus van Schrieck's Medusa and Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem

In 1819, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, after a visit to the Uffizi, wrote "On the Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery", ...
A millennium of alternating fortunes of music in Ancient Greece

A millennium of alternating fortunes of music in Ancient Greece

Video in Italian | Michael Stüve opens the cycle of conferences of the “Universal Lab” with an interesting focus on the various musical vicissitude...
Guess who...

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Guess who...

Video in Italian | Gabriele Morandi invites us to guess a mysterious writer of the past who wrote about the Boboli Gardens
Archaeology in Mugello and Valdisieve: museums, material culture and the role of the community

Archaeology in Mugello and Valdisieve: museums, material culture and the role of the community

Video in Italian | Last appointment with the Uffizi’s cycle of conferences dedicated to archaeological and civic museums of Tuscany
Digitalis Purpurea

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Digitalis Purpurea

Video in Italian | The evil and poisonous plant, the symbol of crime and sin
The Woman with a Veil by Raphael and the “bilicatura”

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The Woman with a Veil by Raphael and the “bilicatura”

Video in Italian | At Pitti Palace, some paintings, even of considerable size, can move using ingenious mechanical devices. Patrizia Naldini tell u...