Plea of French and Italian intellectuals against the reform of the high school, pushed by the Macron government, which strangles the teaching of the Italian language at school. Among the signatories Jeanne Balibar and Julie Gayet, Luciano Canfora, Andrea Camilleri and Dacia Maraini
Day: April 29, 2019
Leonardo Da Vinci, lock of his hair found: from its DNA, his descendants will be tracked down
This is the announcement made by the curators of the «Leonardo Lives» exhibition: the Leonardo’s scholar Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Ideal Leonardo Da Vinci Museum in Vinci (Florence), and the historian Agnese Sabato, president of the Leonardo Da Vinci Heritage, who in 2016 disclosed the existence of the genius’s living descendants
«Suave and fragrant». Leonardo’s wine is born again in his Vinci
It turns out that the Renaissance genius used to produce wine. A document and two museums to celebrate his unprecedented oenological side. Which had, three centuries in advance, developed a scientific method to extract the «divine liquor of grapes»
Day and night from Monday, April 29 to Sunday, May 5
Leonardo-related events in Florence and Tuscany in the week from April 29.
Florence «Painted in Blue»: the 2019 Festival of Europe
On Saturday, May 4, a seminar “Microcosm and Macrocosm: The Legacy of Leonardo da Vinci in the Children’s Hospital” will be sponsored by the Meyer Children’s Hospital Foundation.