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Citazione del Giorno

Posted on May 23, 2011May 22, 2011 by Jon

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”

— Francesco Petrarca [Petrarch] (1304 – 1374)

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Arte

Posted on May 16, 2011May 16, 2011 by Jon

“Mimosa”

Mario Zampedroni (born 1945)

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Citazione del Giorno

Posted on May 16, 2011May 15, 2011 by Jon

“Thomas Jefferson obviously developed an appetite for pasta after his visit to Naples in 1789. He had two cases shipped back home, together with a “maccarony machine”. Ten years later, the first successful pasta factory in the New World was opened in Philadelphia.”

— Lorenza de’ Medici (born 1927)

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Arte

Posted on May 9, 2011May 8, 2011 by Jon

Bitter Campari — Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York

“Bitter Campari”

Fortunato Depero (1892-1960)

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Citazione del Giorno

Posted on May 9, 2011May 8, 2011 by Jon

“For the Italian people, where there is pasta there is hope.”

— Alberto Sordi (1920 – 2003)

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Arte

Posted on May 6, 2011May 5, 2011 by Jon

Deucalion and Pyrrha — Courtesy Denver Art Museum

“Deucalion and Pyrrha”

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 – 1664)

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Citazione del Giorno

Posted on May 6, 2011May 5, 2011 by Jon

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 – 180)

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Arte

Posted on May 5, 2011May 4, 2011 by Jon

St Matthew — Courtesy Pinacoteca, Vatican

“Saint Matthew and the Angel”

Guido Reni (1575 – 1642)

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Citazione del Giorno

Posted on May 5, 2011May 4, 2011 by Jon

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”

— Marcus Valerius Martialis [Martial] (40 – 103)

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Arte

Posted on May 4, 2011May 3, 2011 by Jon

Modern Idol — Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London

“Modern Idol”

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)

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