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...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta, Insights
Piero or Pietro Strozzi (1510 – Thionville, June 21, 1558) was an Italian leader, member of the family patrician Florentine Strozzi, son of Filippo Strozzi and Clarice de ‘Medici, arch enemy of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the 20 / July / 1554 camped and...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta, Insights
The term cremona, in this case, has nothing to do with the city of the same name, but a name probably derived from pre-Roman Gallic origin, linked to variant pre-Latin “carm” of the term “carra” meaning rock, and the rock of the ordinary...
by Mauro Mariottini | Mar 22, 2014 | Hill of Pionta, News-eng
Arezzo, 20th March, 9,30 am, Hillock of Pionta, a bright sunny day for the group in charge of the archaeological survey of the ground surface. The group, coordinated by the President of the Association Dr. Mauro Mariottini and the architects Elena Mancuso and Andrea...
