by Mauro Mariottini | Jul 17, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta
It is certain that St Romuald made at least one visit to the Bishop Tedald in 1023 at the Hillock of Pionta, but it is highly likely that made others were made too. Tedald considered Romuald his spiritual father, and on his request Romuald went on to found the...
by Mauro Mariottini | May 16, 2014 | Hill of Pionta, News-eng
On 14th and 15th May 2014 Professor Giorgio Verdiani, Head of the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence and his team, made up of the architects Francesco Tioli, Angela Mancuso, Mirco Pucci, Andrea Pasquali, Giulia Chiti and Anna Frascari using 3D...
by Mauro Mariottini | May 7, 2014 | Hill of Pionta, News-eng
On the 14th, 15, 16th May 2014 the second phase of the aerial surveys, which started on the 20th March, will take place. Professor Giorgio Verdiani, Head of the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence and his team will carry out terrestrial surveys...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Hill of Pionta, Insights
Guido Monaco was an Italian monk and music theorist of the Medieval era who is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation, or staff notion, that replaced neumatic notation. His text, the Micrologus, was the second most widely distributed treatise on music...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta, Insights
Cosimo I de ‘Medici (Florence, June 12, 1519 – Florence, April 21, 1574) was the second duke of Florence and, later, the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruled from 1537 to 1574. Son of the leader Giovanni delle Bande Nere and Maria Salviati, Cosimo came to...