Florence Daily News

Restored Madonna della Pura Returns to Public View at Santa Maria Novella

The historic Marian image has been restored thanks to the support of Friends of Florence.
Words That Decide the World: Dêmos, Krátos, Femicide

Some words do more than describe reality: they help define it.
Le parole che decidono il mondo: dèmos, kràtos, femminicidio

Alcune parole non si limitano a descrivere la realtà: contribuiscono a definirla.
Uffizi reopens Botticelli rooms with Venus and Primavera facing each other

The museum’s two most famous Renaissance paintings now stand opposite one another in a redesigned display.

High pollution lurks in most Italian cities

Friday, October 12, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini News

Most Italian cities have higher levels of pollution than regulations permit, said an environmental report released Tuesday. Airborne pollution – made up of dust, smoke and hazardous substances in liquid form – exceeded legal limits in many cities, according to 2010 data collected by researchers. That included Florence, Prato, Rome, Milan, Pescara, Naples, Palermo and Siracusa.

Medicine: dead in Pisa endocrinologist Pinchera

Thursday, October 11, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini News

Aldo Pinchera, internationally renowned endocrinologist, is died last night in his home in Pisa. He died for heart problems. Professor of Endocrinology and director of the first school of specialization in Endocrinology and parts of the University of Pisa was 78 years old.

Adoration of the Magi marred by debris

Thursday, October 11, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini Arts

Restorers say they will need two years to undo botched efforts of the past on Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery. But when their work is finished, the painting will be luminous, they say. The first step for the restoration team from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure is to eliminate the debris left by numerous earlier attempts to restore the famous work.

FIAT CEO Marchionne apologizes to Florence

Thursday, October 11, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini News

Speaking to students FIAT CEO and ACEA president, Sergio Marchionne said Matteo Renzi “is a poor copy of Obama, but he thinks he is Obama, the mayor of a little and poor city.” The classification of “little and poor” related to Florence has sparked anger in Florence. Political, trade associations and even churchmen criticized Marchionne.

Mywalit opens its flagship store in Florence

Thursday, October 11, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini Life

An explosion of color in the heart of Florence: opens today Mywalit, an Italian brand of Lucca, who was born to bring color, a wide spectrum of colors, “where there was no color”, making precious and original also smaller accessories: special details that differentiate wallets, key cases, credit card holder…

Italian police, opened the section of ANPS in NYC

Thursday, October 11, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini News

It was opened yesterday in New York a new section of ANPS, the National Association of Italian State Police. It ‘s the first based in the United States and the third outside of Italy, after Toronto and Melbourne. The ceremony was held in the Palais des Nations, at the presence of the Consul General of Italy in New York, Natalia Quintavalle.

Luxuria: emulate Vespucci’s courage

Thursday, October 11, 2012 Alyssa Di Rienzo News

Vladimir Luxuria expressed admiration for people that, like Vespucci, “risk their lives to explore what is unknown.” She advised students “cross the borders” of prejudice, specifically the “border of the division of men and women.” and work to accept things that are different. She specked to the students in Florence.

A statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi damaged

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini Arts

Today, at 8 am, a body monitoring (“Friends of the Earth”) in the Loggia dei Lanzi found the phalanx of a finger of the left hand of the sculpture by Pio Fedi depicting “The Rape of Polyxena” had been removed. All fingers of this hand are product additions made necessary by repeated acts of vandalism (the last in March 2009).

Prince Albert II and Charlene are in Florence

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini News

In the early afternoon the Prince Albert II of Monaco, along with his wife Charlene, after landing at the airport of Peretola and being greeted by the console of the principality Alessandro Giusti, Prefect Luigi Varratta and the Quaestor Francis Zonno, went to visit Palazzo Vecchio.

Lost tourist’s sketches help to find her husband

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Jamie Lorenzini News

A lost, elderly tourist afflicted by Alzheimer’s helped police locate her husband by sketching monuments that retraced the couple’s path through Florence on Monday. The tourist, a 70 year-old Dutch woman who suffered memory problems, had arrived in Florence with a tour group to visit the city.