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The man behind the red suit

Every Christmas village needs a Santa, even in a small southern Tuscan town where not so long ago that job was filled by another senior citizen. In the years before ...

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Per Firenze

To start an article entitled ‘Per Firenze’ by conjuring a chat on a Roman porch is just a step up from heresy in Florence, so true-blue fiorentini may well be ...

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All the shades of Florence

Compare the colours of Florence to yarn swatches used in the fashion industry.

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A street art tour of Florence

Find out about the street art in Florence and where to find it.

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The Floating Piers installation by Christo

  For sixteen days, from June 18 to July 3, 2016 (weather permitting), Italy’s Lake Iseo will be reimagined. One hundred thousand square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, flowing on ...

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2016 Friends of Florence Grant competition

Winning artwork will have been damaged by flood or human actions.

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Santa Verdiana

For nearly 30 years, the block between piazza Ghiberti, via dell’Agnolo and via Ferdinando Paolieri in the heart of Florence’s Santa Croce quarter has been the site of a major centre of style and design: the architecture faculty of the University of Florence. Long known as

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The Lyceum

For the full programme of ‘The Early Seasons of Man’ at the Lyceum Club, see theflr.net/qfmqpl (in Italian).   The International Lyceum Club of Florence recently announced its public programme for 2015. On the theme ‘The Early Seasons of Man,’ the Lyceum will present

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TF for Leica T!

Florence and photography: the perfect marriage for camera lovers.   So, it’s only fitting that Florence is home to Italy’s sole single-brand Leica store in vicolo dell’Oro, a snapshot away from the Ponte Vecchio. On July 21, The Florentine will be teaming up

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Livia’s love nest

The small elegant palace and garden evoking the style of the sixteenth century on busy piazza San Marco has both less and more of an intriguing history than is attributed to it. Built between 1775 and 1778 and originally known as the Casino Royale or Casino Imperiale, it soon became

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Discovering Browning, Lee and De Fauveau

Inspired by a Florentine itinerary linked to Palazzo Strozzi's city-wide cultural and artistic extravaganza, the exhibit, American's in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists, The Florentine’s culture editor, Jane Fortune, shares her ‘gems,’ treasures that spotlight the importance of international artists and intellectuals

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Calcio Storico: A hair-raising game

Being born in Canada means having ice hockey in your veins. It’s a little understood sport in which fist-fighting is considered a normal part of the game. In hockey, a ...

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Simonetta Vespucci

During 2012, The Florentine and the city of Florence are celebrating the sesquicentennial of Amerigo Vespucci's death. But what of the famed woman who also carried this last name?   In the middle of the sixteenth century in Florence, a group of scholars, philosophers and artists-actors in the

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Alla Prima

On the occasion of Palazzo Strozzi's exhibition Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists (see review in TF 159), Kevin Huizenga, a leading American comic artist and graphic novelist, has created a graphic novel, Alla Prima, based on the experience of the young American painters whose work is

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Americans in Florence

About the exhibit Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists, private donor Maria Manetti Farrow writes, ?My life has been shaped by two countries and two cultures. My world is not split by this fact but has been deeply enriched on every level. To support speaks directly

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Enrico Fermi

On December 10, 1942, a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan replaced the annual Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, which had been suspended in 1939 because of World War II. Eleven of the 28 laureates then living in the United States attended. Most of them had fled

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The unwelcome tourist

The uniforms foretold the terrible story of what was to come. When Benito Mussolini, the Italian prime minister, rushed down Platform 16 at Santa Maria Novella Station at 2pm on 9 May, 1938 to meet Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor, both men were wearing military dress. Florence was the last

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Padre Pio

Padre Pio was already a revered holy man of great humility and piety when he offered himself as a victim to bring an end to WWI, the war considered ‘the ...

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Courage under fire

The crater in the highway near the turnoff to a town called Capaci, about 20 kilometres between the Palermo Airport of Punta Raisi and Palermo itself, was about 30 meters ...

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An Interview with Rab Hatfield

Trained at Harvard, professor Rab Hatfield taught at Yale for five years before coming to Florence to head the Art History Department at Syracuse University. The majority of his research deals with Renaissance art, with a particular emphasis on Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. His books include The Riches of

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A cast of characters: Commedia dell’Arte

From the buffo (funny) character of Arlecchino to the extravagant flirt Pulcinella, the characters of the Commedia dell’Arte have provided entertainment for centuries and their appeal remains strong even today. ...

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Stranger in Paradise: Hannibal in Florence

Dr. Lecter's third outing takes place in Florence, with the film adaptation by Ridley Scott.

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Bernard Berenson

Enamoured expatriates of Florence

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