The biography and the works of Ferdinando Zannetti, physician, surgeon, politician and outstanding figure in nineteenth-century Tuscany acquire new light through the organisation and inventorying of the papers from his archive. The history of medicine and surgery of this period …
The "Medici Project"--Launched in 2004 - comprises a palaeopathological study of the corpses of the Medici buried in the Medici Chapels. The exhumations which took place in the past have altered the original state of the sepulchres, frequently compromising their conservation. Th…
The "Medici Project" - launched in 2004 - comprises a palaeopathological study of the corpses of the Medici buried in the Medici Chapels. The exhumations which took place in the past have altered the original state of the sepulchres, frequently compromising their conservation. T…
Symbolforskeren Robert Langdon trækkes ind i en dramatisk verden, der omhandler et af historiens mest mystiske, mørkeste og mest spændende litterære værker: Dantes Inferno. Robert befinder sig pludselig dybt i den klassiske kunst hemmeligheder og han får brug for al sin viden om…
Robert Langdon vågner op med hukommelsestab på et hospital i Firenze. Snart må han med hjælp fra den unge, smukke og snarrådige læge Sienna Brooks tage flugten med en lejemorder i hælene, mens Langdon må optrevle en række gåder baseret på Dantes digt Inferno for at redde mennesk…
Florentine Histories
by Banfield, Laura F., Machiavelli, Niccolò, Mansfield, Jr. Harvey C.
In 1554, a group of laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 left there alive. The author describes that the young women were…
Naples, Rome, Florence: Une histoire comparée des milieux intellectuels i…
by Boutier, Jean, Romano, Antonella, Alimento, Antonella, Caffiero, Marina, Chiosi, Elvira, De Miranda, Girolamo, Donato, Maria Pia, Formica, Marina, Gallo, Daniela, Madignier, Mirabelle, Marin, Brigitte, Michelassi, Nicola, Paoli, Maria Pia, Rao, Anna Maria, Verga, Marcello, Vuelta García, Salomé, Waquet, Françoise
Comment saisir l'activité intellectuelle à l'époque moderne? Comment faire dialoguer des traditions historiographiques - la française et l'italienne - qui, pour être proches au plan géographique, n'en mobilisent pas moins des questionnaires, des méthodes, des objets divergents? …