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...
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...
by Mauro Mariottini | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Press Conference of March 19, 2014 of the project by the cultural association of Academos “Roberta Pellegrini“. The hill where now stands the university town of Arezzo, was home to the bishop in 1203 with the old cathedral. The cathedral was then...
by Mauro Mariottini | Mar 5, 2014 | Hill of Pionta, News-eng
Start of the investigation: Thursday 20th March, using drone orthophotos for environmental survey. Courtesy of Google, immagini ©2014 Cnes/Spot Image, DigitalGlobe, Dati cartografici ©2014...
