May 1886st is celebrated around the world as Labor Day. But where does this tradition come from? From the events of XNUMX to its worldwide spread. Here is the story of the day that celebrates workers
On April 25, 2024, Portugal celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a bloodless uprising that ended the dictatorship of the Estado Novo and ushered in an era of democracy. Here is the story of the revolution and its symbol,…
April 25, 1945: a date that marks the beginning of a new era for Italy. The country was finally freed from Nazi oppression and the fascist regime READ ALSO The metamorphoses of the Resistance: Cominelli's analysis
In the centenary of that political murder, an act that remains among those that made the Italian history of the twentieth century, Polesine, Matteotti's birthplace, remembers his figure, renews his moral teaching and recalls his human and political story...
123 years ago Adriano Olivetti was born, considered an icon of Italian industry, creativity and culture in the twentieth century. Thanks to him, the company, founded by his father, experienced international glory and recognition. Olivetti was not only a businessman, but also a…
56 years ago, the leader of the movement for African American rights was killed with a rifle shot but after many years his message of peace is still relevant
39 years ago, at the end of a lesson at the faculty of economics, the economist Ezio Tarantelli was killed by machine gun fire. His fault was that of having participated in the agreements on the cutting of the escalator shots
There is a lot of talk about technology and electronic money up to cryptocurrency but few know the history of the banknote and who introduced it: the economist John Law
The intelligence test considered most reliable by psychologists is the Wechsler test, which is the method used by Mensa, all over the world, to establish belonging to the global elite of the most intelligent people. Only 2% of the population exceeds this…
The siege lasted for 1.425 days, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996. The numbers of the tragedy are frightening: over 12 thousand victims and 50 thousand injured. At the end of the war Sarajevo had 64% less population. History…
History, Art, culture under the title "At the center of Rome" in its third edition. All events scheduled from March to July 2024. The conferences - with free admission while places last - are hosted in the Refectory Hall...
The signing of the Pacts put an end to the dispute, which began in 1870, between the State and the Church. The agreement, composed of three documents, a treaty, a convention and a concordat (the latter revised in 1984), marked the end of the so-called "Roman Problem"...
Tito managed to stay out of the tensions between East and West, promoting the so-called "Third Path". He adopted a communist model distant from the Soviet one. The marshal governed until 1980, keeping the many ethnic groups of the Slavic nation united. To him…
The first flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 36 meters. It was the beginning of the transportation revolution and credit goes to the Wright Brothers and their Wright Flyer. Here she is…
Trip to one of the historic Venetian weaving mills, the Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua. Ancient looms from the 700th century, the same ones still in use today, create masterpieces in velvet and silk for interior design projects and for "Couture" fashion. Interview with Alberto Bevilacqua,…
Today marks the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's historic victory in the American presidential elections against the then Republican vice president Richard Nixon. Democrat Kennedy, the first Catholic president, won with one of the narrowest margins of votes in the history of US elections.…
Mattei, who founded Eni, died in a plane crash in Bascapè in the Pavia area at just 56 years old but the real causes of the tragedy are still shrouded in fog. From the challenge to the "Seven Sisters" of oil to a mafia attack, here...
Despite the restoration work on the cathedral now in its last phase, the Louvre museum is presenting an exhibition with 120 works from the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris. The exhibition will be held from 18 October 2023 to 29 January 2024
The Colosseum Archaeological Park presents the exhibition “The Beloved of Isis. Nero, the Domus Aurea and Egypt”. The exhibition can be visited from 22 June 2023 to 14 January 2024 inside the Domus Aurea
On the XIII National Day of the Association of Italian Historic Houses, free visits throughout Italy. However, all the events in Emilia Romagna have been cancelled
The 'Hidden Century of China' exhibition (18 May - 8 October 2023) at the British Museum consists of 300 objects, most of which are being moved to the public for the first time
It was 1946 and the Second World War had just ended, when the brothers Joseph and Luigi Clerico reopened La Plage de Paris on the Champs-Élysées, a place that had been in vogue during the Belle époque and was thanks to the collaboration with…
With this article we intend to bring to attention the story of a man, potter, Thomas Commaraw who contributed to the freedom of the black citizens of New York
Keynes' lesson, recalls La Malfa in his beautiful book, teaches that "economics cannot be separated from history and politics" and is essentially "a moral science and not a natural science" …
The tree has a circumference of just over six meters and has reached a height of 16 meters. Italy is the land of centuries-old olive trees, in Umbria an olive tree from the XNUMXth century BC survives. The list of millenary olive trees in Italy…
Veronica Franco, the Venetian courtesan who in the sixteenth century with the renowned literary salon of Domenico Venier in Venice became above all a famous poet
With the disappearance of Gorbachev, a great man in history leaves even if in Russia his Perestroika and his Glasnost had long since entered oblivion
Isidora Duncan, was ostracized in Boston, booed in St. Louis, hailed in Paris, idolized in Monaco. She was an American without a country, the first of the hippies, a flower child, whose flaming red hair and violet eyes…
Don Quixote de la Mancha, the Spanish novel describing the hero of the windmills. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's work was published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615
The story of Marcel Marceau. The mime with a battered hat and a red flower who with pantomime and silence saved hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi deportation
The 28 leaders of the Grand Council vote and approve Dino Grandi's agenda. Its approval by a large majority effectively marks the end of fascism, after the landing of the Allies in Sicily
On 18 April 1948, the first political elections in free Italy were held. A date that should be remembered as a second Liberation because it marked the future of Italy and its western position
Faberge's Easter. It is not easy to find original objects on the market but it can happen, in 2013, an American trader bought a golden egg for 14.000 and sold it for 33 million dollars
The theme of the volume is a history of credit and finance between the end of the 300s and the beginning of the 500s conducted on the archive of the Paduan family Lion
From the didactic vineyard in the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia to the rediscovery of the vineyard of Frederick IV of Bourbon in the palace of Caserta, to the vineyards of the Colosseum and Pompeii, wine creates culture
At the table, Carnival was imposed since the 400s as the antithesis between the lean, typical of Lent, and the fat, typical of the non-penitent time. The recipe for frappe from 1587
Until 27 March, the Intesa Sanpaolo Museum and the Circolo dei Lettori in Milan are proposing a series of meetings to explore the habits and customs of the travelers on the Grand Tour
The Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2022 will be held on January 1, 2022 under the direction of Daniel Barenboim in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna: here is the story of this extraordinary event that fascinates the whole world…
We publish, courtesy of goWare, the Italian translation of an article in the New York Times by the authors of the book "Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World"
Until 5 December 2021, the "Secret Farnese" project offers an unprecedented itinerary inside the majestic building in the heart of the city of Piacenza
The passionate story of the last discovery of the wreckage of the Second World War plane in Palinuro, before its definitive disappearance, about 10 years ago
An emotional journey with the help of the most advanced technologies to discover Brunello wine through experiential itineraries that embrace the millenary history, archeology, artistic heritage, landscape and products of a unique territory in the world
Extract from the new book by Giorgio Arfaras, "The story is not over. From the origins of capitalism to the western and eastern variants" published by Guerini (with goWare for the digital version)
An ancient gastronomic tradition of the town of Motta Livenza recalls the failed night attack of the Turkish army aiming to conquer Venice, The kitchen of the poor, when a herring was hung from the ceiling to flavor a meager plate of polenta. RECIPE…
Legal positivism affirms the thesis of the factuality of law and its essential reduction to a descriptively accessible "source". Law and morals are thus believed to make conceptually distinct and in principle separate or separable.…
From offerings to the gods per fumum, aromatic substances became part of the daily life of ancient peoples. Incense, myrrh, spikenard, rose, saffron, marjoram, cardamom, cinnamon, cassia were the ingredients of precious fragrances such as Aigyption, Megallion, the Panathenaicum created by the art of…
For centuries, art lovers and collectors around the world have fantasized about rumors of hidden treasure in the basement of the Hermitage. With this curiosity, millions of people visit the St. Petersburg museum which stands on the left bank…
In Ancient Rome, Lollia Paolina, wife of the Emperor Caligula, when she appeared in public wore strings and strings of pearls that adorned her chest, fell on her back, encircled her arms and ankles, even hung in fringes from the hem of her clothes .…
Only in 1981 did Pablo Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" return home, a painting seven meters eighty-two centimeters long and three meters fifty tall. Its value? Priceless! Guernica, is Picasso's masterpiece known as the expression of protest…
In one of the many polar nights, typical of the long Russian winter, the temperature in Petersburg was 35 degrees below zero. Then, suddenly, something incredible happened: the thermometer rose by a good 40 degrees, stopping at 5 above zero. It was the night of January 2, 1782, and the chronicles of…
From Saturday 1st August and for every Saturday until 26th September, the SAT, the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini, has organized a series of cultural meetings - It starts with Punta Linke, on the Vioz.
The very secret recipe of the jasmine chocolate from the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III is told in this video: from the National Central Library of Florence on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism…
Nine thematic areas for the restart after the coronavirus. A mega-plan open to the contribution of artists, associations and local authorities. There are moments in which history and traditions risk becoming pure melancholy if they are not innovated. The ability for a city to avoid such a reversal lies in the hands of those who govern it.…
A focus on the submerged church of Santa Maria di San Vittorino is the video contribution of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Frosinone, Latina and Rieti to the campaign "Culture does not stop" It is a video…
The first print of “The Star-Spangled Banner” available for online bidding will be auctioned at Christie's June 2-18, 2020, as part of The Open Book: Fine Travel, Americana, Literature and History in Print and Manuscript Auction …
Today we interview Elisabetta Righi Iwanejko, new president since 1 May 2020 and for the three-year period 20/23 of the San Marino-Italy Association. A reality that by statute is non-profit, has no political aims and proposes as its object the…
Today 22 April 2020 at 19.10 on the occasion of Earth Day, Rai Storia proposes the documentary film "The salt of the earth", for the "Author's documentaries" cycle. For forty years, Salgado has been crossing the continents in the footsteps of a humanity in full change.…
It was April 8, 1972, An Lộc was hit by rockets and mortar shells, raising clouds of dust and rubble from the red earth streets. Thousands of refugees tried to reach Saigon, not realizing that the North Vietnamese had now closed…
We all remember General Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen to be exact, as the man who in 1940 suddenly became the most famous commander of the XNUMXth Armored Division during its advance through France. After two years, when his Africa Kops stood with the forces…
How much curiosity is linked to the pyramids of Giza, in Egypt, and above all to the great pyramid of the pharaoh Khufu, called by the Greeks, Cheops. Built about 4.500 years ago, it still remains the largest work of architecture ever built by man, with…
During this period of health emergency from Covid-19 which sees us worried but also closer, we thought we'd publish a reading every day: moments of #history, of #society or commented pages of the great #classics of literature. An easy way…
At a time when time escapes us and makes us fragile, our thoughts go to those who work in hospitals to save everyone's life, absolutely everyone. Preferential lanes for the most needy, today more than ever we are from…
An exhibition to discover that if the Princess really had kissed the toad, the buphonid would actually have appeared to her as a handsome, young knight. Poisons, potions, medicines are investigated along their millennial stratification. Este, National Museum of Este
We are at the 23rd episode of the series of Italian best-selling authors dedicated to an author who will be able to say very little to many. We are talking about Anton Giulio Barrili, from Savona, a patriot, a Garibaldian and a writer of great popularity until his death…
On August 18, 1903, a German engineer flew for the first time on a motorized airplane, anticipating the two Americans by a good four months - Yet, his feat did not go down in history: here's why
15 August 1769-15 August 2019: on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, "Napoleon the Communicator: Thinking with the mind of the winner" by Roberto Race is published, published by ScriptaManent.
In about twenty minutes overall, the five episodes, accompanied by music, retrace the history of Pirelli since 1872
The volume Vestiarium. Vestments for the liturgy in the history of the Church. Antiquity and the Middle Ages, published by goWare, 2019 is accompanied by 590 images, including 100 graphic renderings of the garments studied.
Intesa Sanpaolo organizes a two-day event in Milan on the theme of the relationship between media, history, memory and television - Top Italian and international experts speak: the programme.
But what city is Trieste really? On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Trieste branch of the Bank of Italy, the deputy director Signorini presented a very stimulating reflection on the city between its history and that of the country
The Roman cultural association "The Infernal Machine" brings the symbolic universe of Freemasonry, its historical origins and rites to the stage in four stages - The first appointment on 11 November
In the guise of Diana "Goddess of the hunt" the Olschki publishing house presents a new and fascinating volume entitled "The myth of Diana in the culture of the Courts".
The exhibition “The Horse: 4 years of history. Giannelli Collection“ is promoted by the Pinacoteca Züst and is curated by Alessandra Brambilla and Claudio Giannelli. It can be admired in the Pinacoteca di Rancate from 000 May to 6 August.
Bernard Berenson - called BB by his friends - is considered the greatest connoisseur of art, the one who had the delirium of looking, because according to the art historian "Knowing how to look is one of the most difficult art".
The new essay by Mario Avagliano and Marco Palmieri, published by il Mulino, which tells the story of "L'Italia di Salò" and, documents and testimonies in hand, fills a void in national historiography on one of the most painful pages of the…
Notre-Dame with its arches, its rainbow of colors of the three rose windows and its agile structure, is the destination of many visitors every year, but it is at Christmas that it becomes the place "so beautiful that it cannot be described…
In "Dialoghi Mediterranei", the sociologist Maria Immacolata Macioti brings to mind the Armenian genocide, one of the most tragic events in the history of the twentieth century, and the complex figure of Armin Wegner.
