Botticelli's Secret
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible pr...
Botticelli's Secret
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city's powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible projec...
Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image
Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image
A Cinema of Poetry
A Cinema of Poetry
Dante's Divine Comedy
The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and ...