Together with Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano was one of the great painters active in the lagoon capital in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. We are talking about a magnificent Venice , one of the most brilliant artistic centres in the world. Giovanni was born and grew up inland, at the foot of the mountains in a town called Conegliano . That inland Veneto , made up of vast expanses enhanced by light, and framed by mounta

To understand who Goldoni was, let's start by saying that he began as a child to play with puppets, that he greatly admired Molière and that at some point he left his Commedia dell'Arte to write dangerously realistic pièces, continuing to reform Italian comedy . With his three-act comedy "I rusteghi " , for example, the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni wrote a cruel social satire of his contemporaries by attacking a Venetian bourgeoisie in full decline, whose male pillars we

It is evident that, first of all for us, Giangiorgio Trissino is Andrea Palladio's mentor , in a certain sense his creator. In a broader sense, he was certainly the one who dedicated his life to the realization of the vision of his Olympic Vicenza . But Trissino dal Vello d'Oro was also, or rather before, a literary theorist, a philologist, a playwright, a poet and an important innovator of Italian theater . He was born in Vicenza in 1478, a decade before the publication of

…and the subtle thread that binds him to the Serenissima There are figures who do not simply pass through history: they leave a fragrance as they go. Vincenzo Corrado  — cook, philosopher, and man of letters — lived between the 18th and 19th centuries as “Head of the Services of the Mouth”  to Prince Michele IV Imperiali.In the aristocratic halls of Naples, among the trembling candlelight and the silver reflecting quiet movements, Corrado did not merely cook: he directed.His

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi is more than five hundred years old and is in its third or fourth life. But what exactly is the Fondaco? It was...

Antonio Fogazzaro studied in Turin . 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 formula

Giacomo Casanova is often portrayed as a Don Juan obsessed with sexual performance, a cynical and immoral dissimulator: this probably confuses the character with his caricature. The journey of the Venetian traveler has certainly blurred the tracks: adventurer, lover of more than a hundred women, exiled to a thousand trades, the man made his life a job. He says that Turin can offer everything you could want in terms of sex and love, but that being a very small city you are

Catherine Cornaro's story is closely linked to the wishes of her father: the ambitious Venetian patrician Marco Cornaro, who gave the benefit of his fortune to King John II of Cyprus , and later to his son James II. Of course, these loans were not made without ulterior motives. King James II of Cyprus soon understood that it was becoming complicated to pay him back. It was then that Marco Cornaro offered him his fourteen year old daughter, Caterina. Being still a minor, f

Venice and Florence, for many centuries rivaled as two world capitals of art, references in all the great arts: in painting, architecture, sculpture, not to mention music. A magnificent challenge: on one side Giotto, Michelangelo, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, on the other Giorgione, Veronese, Tiziano, Bellini, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Palladio, Scamozzi, Canova, Canaletto... to name a few. For all of them, the first question was: how to represent the uni