Back in 1588, a young girl who had recently become sixteen, named Dorina, met a beautiful girl on the street, completely dressed in white, who passed her without saying a word; Dorina remained paralyzed as she contemplated her beauty. This very strange fact occurred again two more times, while she was returning home. The fourth time something different happened: the woman in white spoke to her. "Say, little Dorina, wouldn't you like to become beautiful like me?". Dorina was s

He was born in Vicenza in 1842. In his youth he lived first in Turin , where he graduated in law, then in Milan, where he came into contact with the exponents of the scapigliatura, but already in 1869 he returned to Vicenza, where, abandoned the profession of lawyer, he devoted himself exclusively to literature until his death in 1911. Fogazzaro was a restless soul, eager to free himself from the fetters of an oppressive bourgeois conformism, but also unable to formulate in c

Few people know that 25 million Italians, of which almost 5 million were Venetian s, left their country after the unification of Italy to seek work and fortune in distant lands. There are currently 147 circles of Venetians' descendants in different continents - a page of history that has been forgotten or ignored for too long, and which must be known in all its details in order to understand Italian contemporaneity, that is, the causes and repercussions, the similarities and

The Scrovegni Chapel has surely a certain Dantean character, but... is it true that Dante joined his compatriot Giotto here in Padua ? Before Padua: a Florentine friendship that never stops moving In the early fourteenth century, Florence is more than a city: it is a living workshop . Dante and Giotto share the same air — one made of workshops, schools, and ideas that spill beyond medieval boundaries. Within this climate Dante makes a deliberate gesture: he revives the word

The potato grown in the lagoon areas of the Veneto , as well as in the mountain areas or the Vicenza plateau , also has its own history, crucial for the subsistence of the people of Veneto. Daughter of the hunger that so affected the peninsula and Europe in the aftermath of the fall of the Serenissima, it became a mass product among the poor people . Therefore, this tuber was the only food able to make up for the lack of cereals. And precisely in the islands off the coast of

Villa Foscari, a high example of Palladian creativity on the banks of the Brenta river, enjoys a legendary aura that covers the stairways and columns and the rooms and windows of the building. Everything revolves around his nickname, La Malcontenta, around which many have created narratives more or less based on real facts. Certainly there are plausible explanations, such as the one that sees the site being called this way long before the Palladian building, due to the conti

The regular sound of the chisel on the stone. It is the hand of Andrea Palladio that caresses the marble and examines the project to follow. He walks away, looks at the result of the last tap of his chisel. The windows reflect the adolescent face of Andrea whose name still is Di Pietro della Gondola, who has yet to discover his talent. The owner of the house he is working on helps him, Gian Giorgio Trissino who is renovating the family home in the Cricoli area in Vicenza. I

Among the tangled webs of the ancient Venetian nobility , one stands out for the city of Vicenza, the one that bears the solemn coat of arms of the Trissino family. The chronicles report the honors already from the year 1000, but it is in the Renaissance that thanks to some prominent personalities in the field of politics and science, the Trissino family assumed a particular importance. Much of this prestige is due to the figure of Gian Giorgio Trissino , appointed by the Em

Riviera del Brenta gives us, in addition to memorable naturalistic views , also wonderful examples of noble architecture . And among the pearls that the river gives us stands out Villa Pisani , in Stra, with its collection of nineteenth-century works of art, paintings, finely decorated rooms. But what fascinates the minds of the dreamers of the world is that little piece of Park, also worthy of particular note, which contains the labyrinth of hedges. To Girolamo Frigimelica