Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte Today it has reached Pills of History , by Mr. Marco Buccino , reporting a show on Napoleon Bonaparte which will be held between March and June in Cherasco (CN). I faithfully report to readers the information on the event exactly as it came to me.
Portrait of Simonne Evrard, wife of Marat (Carnavalet, Paris) The following article, entirely dedicated to Simonne Evrard , wife of the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, has been translated for Pills of History by Stefania Di Pasquale , collaborator of the research group Pole-Nord
Maximilien Robespierre Thanks to Stefania Di Pasquale , translator and collaborator of the Pole-Nord Group Brussels research group , which deals with the French Revolution and the figure of Jean-Paul Marat in particular, for sending Pills of History the article that I report below, o
Actress Natalie Dormer plays Anna Bolena in the television drama The Tudors Anna Bolena she is one of the female figures who have most marked the modern history of England and Europe; of her from her scandalous liason with Henry VIII originated the religious schism that led to the birth of t
An ancient hospital. The Florentine Renaissance hospitals were well cared for and equipped The hospitals of Florence at the time of the Medici , almost certainly worked better than those existing in Italy today. After all, between the 1400s and 1500s, the Tuscan city became the most important
Napoleon in Waterloo. Having your hand portrayed under your waistcoat was a fashion of the time Several times I have wondered why Napoleon Bonaparte he had often been portrayed with his hand under his waistcoat, exactly at stomach height, so I did a little research on it. Some time ago, s
Portrait of Henry VIII Henry VIII powerless? It might seem like a paradox when referring to a man who went down in history for having six wives (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/8382/storia-moderna/le-6-mogli-di-enrico-viii-in-un-film-tv-con-video) and an impressive number of lovers , yet it
The Lady with an Ermine or Cecilia Gallerani and La Gioconda, or Lisa Gherardini, the most famous women in the history of art The Lady with an Ermine ”And the “ Mona Lisa ” , the latter more famous as La Gioconda, are two of the most famous, mysterious and discussed female portraits of
A Renaissance table set. A Florentine of the time never gave up on good wine If we had the opportunity to sit at the table of a Florentine middle of the Renaissance, between the 15th and 16th centuries, in the middle of the Medici era , what could we expect to eat? We would almost certainl
Florence in the Renaissance. In the Medici era, the Signoria intervened in organizing a citizens funeral In Florence, in full Medici era , when a citizen died, the Signoria itself intervened in organizing the funeral. Before the funeral, the deceased, lying on a simple straw mattress, was
The ladies of the Pollaiolo. In Medici Florence, female education became much less rigid than in the past The cultural and social rebirth that characterized Florence in the Renaissance, in full Medici era , also concerned the education of girls, marking a definitive break with the past:the
Louis XIV at Versailles surrounded by servants. Bizarre works were carried out at the palace, created specifically to please people Of the impressive number of servants and strange jobs which took place at the palace of Versailles I already talked about in this post https://www.pilloledist
Personal hygiene in the 1700s (painting by Francois Boucher). In Versailles there were toilets, but they were practically never used As is known, at the palace of Versailles the apparent splendor actually concealed an unimaginable dirt, both of the environments and of the people who lived ther
A lady at the hairdressers in the 1700s. Some extravagant hairstyles sported by the ladies at Versailles made history For a certain period of time at the court of Versailles the ladies sported hairstyles to say the least extravagant, characterized by hair twisted around a sort of scaffolding t
A French noble of the 1700s wearing culottes A item of clothing typical of eighteenth-century mens fashion close to the French Revolution were the culottes, as already written in this post https://www.pilloledistoria.it/8234/storia-moderna/come-vestiva-un-nobile-francese-del-700. But h
Jeremy Irons in the part of Alexander VI in the TV series The Borgias On Pope Alexander VI Borgia rivers of ink have been poured out, most of which are spent describing turpitudes and atrocities, but perhaps no one has managed to sketch a portrait of this character as essential as it is complete
The court doctors visit Louis XIV in the film “The last days of Louis XIV” In the last years of his existence Louis XIV he was afflicted with a severe form of gangrene in his leg left, in turn caused by a pre-existing gout, a frequent disease among people of the time belonging to a certain r
A duel In the number 69 of the Storica magazine (November 2014) there is an interesting service entirely dedicated to the duel, the same one from which I drew some of the indications I used to write this post https://www.pilloledistoria.it/9626/storia-contemporanea/evariste-galois-giovane-
At the table in the Renaissance:a “rich” banquet in which fruit and eggs can be seen What was brought to the table in Italy between the 15th and 16th centuries ? What were the most popular foods ? Also with regard to the Renaissance, as with any other historical epoch, a distinction ne
An ancestor of our boutiques:the tailors shop, from a fresco of the Issogne Castle (Aosta Valley) Milan, Florence, Bologna, Genoa and Venice became, in full Renaissance era , the “silk roads” favorites of our country, cities literally teeming with large luxury shops in which precious fabri
Dyed Foxes. A few years ago, Jan Tomaszewski called that for foreigners who wanted to play football with a white eagle on their chest. Nothing new. Already 80 years ago, foreign players joined the Polish national team. And they won the hearts of the fans. Polish football was born relatively late
It was May 2019 when the British Dr Jenners House Museum published on its social media, an iconic frame of Allan Warner. Of a doctor who worked in Leicester in 1901 and played a crucial role in the spread of smallpox vaccines. Two years later, and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, these frames
We know Henry VIII mainly from the fact that he murdered his wives with passion. If it werent for him, there wouldnt be Anglicanism either. The (un) famous king, however, had one more, forgotten face. He was the employer with his worst nightmare. The English court in the 16th century was famous
Gall Anonymous explained that the first Christian ruler of Poland was immersed in such errors of paganism that, according to the custom of his people, he took seven wives. The number of partners was probably sucked out of the finger by the chronicler. But what about the harem itself at the dawn of o