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The Lost Towers of Florence by Chris Dobson is now available as second edition eBook. It describes the Florentine now-vanished towers: how they came to be built, why they have almost entirely disappeared, and where you can still get an impression of what these incredible buildings were like, if you know where to look.
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The symposium Behind the Fig Leaf – Erotic Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy will take place Thursday, December 4, 2014, 4 pm, Room 13, Villa Rossa, at the SUF – Syracuse University in Florence.
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Travels to the East is the iconic exhibition at Casa Martelli, via Zannetti 8, 50122 Florence, Italy in collaboration with Musée national et domaine du château de Pau (last day January 30, 2015).
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Two 17th-century letters discovered in the small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche region.
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From November 17 to December 19, 2014, Opera di Santa Croce will be running an international crowdfunding campaign to restore the loggia of the Pazzi Chapel. This is the first ever Kickstarter campaign by a major cultural institution in Florence, Italy.
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An exhibit celebrating 19th century Italian masters of the Macchiaioli movement opened Friday October 3, 2014, at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
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The third edition of the UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries will take place from 2 to 4 October 2014 in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
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As of 20 September 2014 Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be focusing on modern art once again with a major new event devoted to one of the greatest masters of 20th century painting, Pablo Picasso.
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Elisabetta Rogai strikes back in Versilia researching intimate emotions and feelings.
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The court cloak of Donna Franca Florio presents the restoration of a sumptuous court cloak in ivory-coloured satin created by the Worth fashion house of Paris for Donna Franca Florio, who had that same year been appointed lady-in-waiting to Queen Elena, the wife of Victor Emmanuel III.
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