“Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.”
— Apuleius (125 – 180)
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Month: March 2011
Arte
“Afternoon in Fiesole“
Baccio Maria Bacci (1888 – 1974)
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Citazione del Giorno
“Conviviality at the table and the shared pleasure of good food and good company must be counted as one of the most enriching aspects of the heritage of Italian cooking.”
— Lorenza de’ Medici (born 1927)
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Arte
“Fresco Depicting a Bacchian Rite”
Artist Unknown (circa 55 BC)
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Citazione del Giorno
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 – 180)
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Arte
“Solidity of Fog”
Luigi Russolo (1885 – 1947)
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Citazione del Giorno
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
— Publius Vergilius Maro [Virgil] (70 BC – 19 BC)
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Arte
“Psyche Revived by Love’s Kiss”
Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822)
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Citazione del Giorno
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
— Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564)
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Arte
“Corale d’Oro” chandelier in hand sculpted champagne gold Murano glass
Rocco Borghese (born 1957)
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