NEW TRUTHS FROM THE PAGES OF HISTORY
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With access unlocked by expert scholars and researchers, join Florence-based photographer Tessa Chung as she documents the archives at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and the State Archives of Florence. They house ancient documents which reveal a clandestine chapter in the city's history, one that's explored on a journey curated with Kevin Childs.
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Behind the scenes at the Collezione Savonaroliana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, an archive containing rare documents and letters from Girolamo Savonarola, the moral dictator of Florence during the 1490s. These include Savonarola's personal bible which is over 500 years old, but still holds his own, minute hand-written annotations in the margins.
WHEN I THINK, MY LOVE, THAT THE DAY IS NEAR, WHICH MUST TAKE ME AS IF I HAD SINNED, AND SIGHS ARE ALL THAT’S LEFT ME HERE, WHERE WE SO LATELY SWEETLY TWINNED
AGNOLO POLIZIANO (1454–1494) - THE CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND POET
Behind the scenes at Archivio di State di Firenze. Discover court records that redefine the involvement of key historical figures in Florentine society during the 15th century. Many of Florence’s most famous sons were themselves the subjects of investigation by the 'Office of the Night' courts: Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Donatello, Michelangelo, even members of the Medici family.
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A QUEER HISTORY OF RENAISSANCE FLORENCE
Co-curated by art historian Kevin Childs, raise the curtain on Renaissance Florence to reveal a clandestine chapter in the city's history where same-sex relations convened with high art and intellectual discourse.
