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09/04/2023

Buona Pasqua da Firenze

07/04/2023

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April 7, 2023 "Buona Pasqua." "Buona Pèsach." "Buona Primavera."  Wishing you joy in this season of renewal. Deborah and Frank  The Renaissance Company | 1557 Hunting Ave, McLean, VA 22102 Unsubscri

01/04/2023

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17/04/2022

Buona Pasqua. News from the Madonna del Parto in Monterchi.

Mayor of Monterchi, Tuscany, rejects court’s ruling that painting by Piero della Francesca be put back in hilltop chapel

15/04/2022

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Happy Easter and Happy Spring April 2022 Auguri di Buona Pasqua, buona primavera, e serenità a voi e ai vostri cari. Pace e bene, Deborah and Frank www.renaissancecompany.com Write to us at info@ren

08/03/2022

Buona Festa delleDonne!

01/03/2022

Tonight: Frank Ambrosio
Politics and Prose
Dante's Paradiso
Six Tuesdays: March 1, 8, 15, (skip 22 no class), 29, April 5, 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST

"Turn back if you would see your shores again. Do not set forth upon the deep, for, losing sight of me, you would be lost." Paradiso, Canto II, lines 4-6

This year marks the seventh Centenary of both the completion of Dante Alighieri's masterpiece and the death of the poet. Throughout Italy, across America, and around the world public readings of the Divine Comedy, commemorative lectures and events, art exhibitions and theatrical performances pay homage to the legacy of "il Sommo Poeta."

https://www.politics-prose.com/class/online-class-dantes-paradiso-2203

25/12/2021

BUONE FESTE!
May the holiday season and the new year
bring happiness and peace
to you and your loved ones.

Tanti auguri di Buone Feste
che siano motivo di pace,
amore e serenità.

Deborah e Frank

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24/11/2021

Thanksgiving greetings from Toscana. May your holiday be filled with an abundance of good food, good health, and the warmth of family and friends both near and far.
Pace e bene,
Deborah & Frank

29/09/2021

Visiting an old friend….

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/arts/design/michelangelo-bandini-pieta.html?smid=url-share

The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master.

29/09/2021

Visiting an old friend in Florence…

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/arts/design/michelangelo-bandini-pieta.html?smid=url-share

The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master.

26/04/2021

Frank Ambrosio on Dante
April 27, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project,
the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities, Campion Hall (University of Oxford), and the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall (University of Oxford). It is part of a year-long series on the "Christian Literary Imagination."

Please register at least 24 hours before the event to receive the zoom webinar link.

In an apostolic letter issued by Pope Francis on March 25, 2021, commemorating the seventh centenary of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s death, Francis declares that Dante’s life and works remain a lasting treasure that embodies the virtue of hope so desperately needed in...

02/04/2021

Buona Pasqua, Buon Pesach, Buona PrimaveraAfter a long dark reflective year, have we ever been so grateful to see the world reawakening? Passover, Resurrection, Renaissance are words with particular resonance this year for us all...

Happy Easter, Happy Passover and Happy Spring April 2021 Buona Pasqua, Buon Pesach, Buona Primavera Happy Passover, Happy Easter, Happy Spring! After a long dark reflective year, have we ever been so

25/03/2021

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2021-03-25 FIRENZE - DANTE, A FIRENZE L'ALBERO PARADISO È SCULTURA PENONE

25/03/2021

Happy Dante Day! Today, March 25will marks the 700th anniversary of the poet's death in 1321. Florence's Uffizi Gallery set up virtual tours of Dante exhibit on the “Sommo Poeta,” while actors including Stefano Accorsi, Gabriele Lavia and Glauco Mauri read some of the Comedy's cantos on Florence TV.

Ecco il nostro montaggio-omaggio a Dante Alighieri nel giorno del primo "Dantedì", il giorno che celebra l'avvio del viaggio narrato dal Sommo Poeta nella Di...

15/03/2021

The Ides of March

15/03/2021

“A glooming peace this morning with it brings...”

08/03/2021

Auguri! Next year in Italia!