Gherardo Cibo and the buen retiro of Arcevia
A few days ago, on my usual tour of the Marche region, I passed through Arcevia, a charming little village perched on the first hills behind Senigallia....
Lorenza Cappanera
Places of the Heart: The Passetto in Ancona
Among the places dear to my heart that are part of my memories, there is one that punctually resurfaces as summer approaches: the Passetto and...
The Rubens Treasure in Fermo
It seems quite significant that an extraordinary painter like Peter Paul Rubens also had ties to the Marche. This proves that this region, in the field...
Interview with Silvia Ronchey
I have wanted to interview her for ages. The book that introduced me to her, her “Enigma di Piero” recommended to me on a winter afternoon...
Gino's version
A mysterious and seductive legend circulates about the monastery of Montebello and Gino Girolomoni, which perfectly fits the mystical figure of the man I...
Art for Art in Matelica: The Madonna of Constantinople
Works of art should be seen in two ways: the patron and the iconography. As much as I love art, I've always...
Sixtus V and the Marches: between rigour and modernity
The Marche region, despite its small population, has given birth to ten Popes, one of the most significant of which...
The Beauty of Books: Giorgio Mangani and the Marche Region
The Beauty of the Book: Giorgio Mangani His books are masterpieces of resistance, designed to subvert the downward spiral into which the sector is sliding today...
Cyriacus of Ancona, the adventure of a poor Christian
For a long time I thought Ancona wasn't part of Mediterranean civilization, the sunny, fragrant one of the Campanian archipelago, or the ancient Roman provinces between...
Simone Cantarini and his other self in Urbino: an exhibition not to be missed
It's when I return to Urbino that I enter a sort of fairytale dimension that reminds me not only of my youth. "The gods have made...