1.46 Campari as an elite brand 3.10 The Milanese market 4.17 The world of the factory is the factory of the world 6.22 Pop & glamour 7.29 The dawn of mass advertising 10.47 Depero and Futurism 12.30 Art as autobiography 14.17 The futurist house: now and then 16.24 Depero and Read more…
There’s a small piece of art in almost every fridge, even in yours. It’s from the Twenties, the time when an avant-garde artist (Fortunato Depero) and an entrepreneur (Davide Campari) proved that ads could be something more than shouted slogans and that even a tiny, mundane object can be the Read more…
– 2.10 Ripples and bubbles: the Roman factions and a dissolving empire – 5.03 The four margraves – 6.22 The complexity of the papacy – 8.48 Formosus: controversial and pious – 10.59 Infallibility, the play – 11.58 Power, authority and faith: the Cadaver Synod – 13.08 Reflecting (on) the present: Read more…
Here’s one question you didn’t expect to ever ask yourself: can the Pope take a dead Pope to court? The answer is yes, but be ready for another surprising turn, because the reason why the exhumed Pope’s corpse faces trial isn’t as outlandish as you may presume. In this episode Read more…
– 1.40 The secret recipe – 2.27 Inside a Mulassano’s tramezzino – 4.53 Mulassano before it was Mulassano – 8.09 VIP customers: legend and truth – 11.11 Tramezzino: a case study – 13.17 The shape, the meaning, the origin of the tramezzino – 15.52 What’s an author’s neologism? – 17.22 Read more…
What if I told you that the good, old sandwich has both a birthplace and a birthdate? What if this place was Italy and the year was 1926? In this episode of Italian Culture, we discover how a humble recipe changed the life of its inventor, a young woman who Read more…
– 3.35 Opera and gender construction – 5.36 “Tuneful scarecrows”: orchiectomy and its effects – 6.35 Masters of the voice: the castrato training – 9.20 Voice and femininity – 11.25 The ambivalence of the church – 13.10 The apex of the castrati era – 14.03 The end of the castrati Read more…
A candid angel, a bratty popstar and a cunning smuggler: what have they in common? They sacrificed their testicles and gained a splendid voice. In this episode of Italian Culture, we investigate the fascinating world of the castrati singers. From the Baroque era to the Twentieth century, we’ll follow the Read more…
– 2.27 Who is Antonello da Messina? – 4.45 The portrait of Unknown – 5.47 Two smiles – 6.44 Antonello’s eyes – 9.18 Enrico Piraino, il Mandralisca: politician and philanthropist – 12.35 Francesco Vitale: the bishop, the humanist – 14.20 The last traces of Francesco Vitale – 17.00 The journey Read more…
The painting is cursed, it portrays the devil who’ll drive crazy whoever looks at him – that’s what people say. Why is his gaze so unsettling? Who is he really? No one knew, until now. In this episode of Italian Culture, we investigate the story of the Portrait of Unknown Read more…