Giovanni Pascoli What do we know about the death of Giovanni Pascoli ? The great Italian poet, one of the greatest exponents of European Decadentism, died on April 6, 1912 in Bologna. He had been living in the Emilian city for some time, after having succeeded Giosuè Carducci as a profes
Giulia Beccaria with little Alessandro Alessandro Manzoni was born in Milan on 7 March 1785 from the wedding of Giulia Beccaria, daughter of the famous Cesare, and Peter, belonging to one of the noblest families of the city, but not a few sources seriously question the aforementioned autho
Tortelli After a bit of a break, I go back to posting on Pills of history cooking recipes taken from Artusi , or “Science in the kitchen and the art of eating well by Pellegrino Artusi, which are always very successful. This time I chose the recipe to prepare tortelli, at home
Desserts:Neapolitan pudding according to Artusi The sweets more good ones have no time, like this Neapolitan pudding from Science in the kitchen and the art of eating well, highly successful nineteenth-century recipe book written by Pellegrino Artusi. If you want to try it, you can fin
Retro style bathtub For centuries the tub for washing it was made up of a simple tub made of sheet metal enameled or lacquered which was used above all by women, since men considered it something effeminate. The bathtub similar to the one we know today, called “general bathroom” , invo
Louis XIV in Versailles. The number of servants at the palace was impressive How many servants they worked at Versailles in the epoch of its maximum splendor, therefore between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? How many men and women did the largest and most luxurious palace in the w
Vincent Van Gogh in one of several self-portraits of him The great Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh died on 29 July 1890 , aged only 37, due to the consequences of a chest injury that he himself, a few days earlier, had procured in a suicide attempt failed. This at least the official vers
Ludwig II (Helmut Berger) and Sissi (Romy Schneider) in Ludwig by Luchino Visconti The controversial and fascinating figure of Ludwig II of Bavaria it has inspired numerous films, among the most famous of which is certainly “Ludwig ”By Luchino Visconti , film from 1973 in which to lend the
Sore throat After some time I go back to posting health and beauty recipes taken from To be beautiful ( Sonzogno, Milan , 1906 ), a manual from the early 1900s. The following is a remedy to cure sore throat : I quote verbatim: For hoarseness and phlegm, use alum solutions and a loc
psychotropic drug The Depression it is a psychic pathology that has accompanied man since the dawn of time, but for centuries, also due to the lack of knowledge about it, it has been treated with methods that are, to say the least, questionable. Until the middle of the last century it was not
Modern contraceptives:contraceptive pill The advent of contraceptives marked a real revolution in the context of sexuality, making it actually freer and no longer aimed at procreation alone. It began at the end of the 19th century with mechanical devices the condom rubber and the diap
Portrait of Evariste Galois mathematics it is anything but a passion of mine, therefore I have never been interested either in the discipline itself or in its most illustrious exponents, until the other day, leafing through an old issue of the magazine Storica ( 69, November 2014 ), I did n
Sissis bidet What you see in photo is the bidet belonged to the Empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria , better known as Sissi. Yes, during the 19th century, personal hygiene she began to become more and more attentive and assiduous, starting, of course, from the highest strata of t
Sinking Titanic:a reconstruction Exactly 105 years have passed since the sinking of the Titanic, It sank into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the night between 14 and 15 April 1912, but has never stopped talking about this tragic and fascinating story at the same time, and even less in
One of the very first teams of Fiorentina (1926-27). It seems strange to imagine Fiorentina with a shirt other than the purple one, yet when the glorious club was born in 1926, the official uniform had completely different shape and colors from the current ones. The shirt was in fact half
Rasputin surrounded by women, great passion of him There is no aspect of Rasputins life that is not controversial, but perhaps no one is as controversial as his sexuality, still today, a hundred years after his death, far from clear. Certainly the Siberian monk was somewhat exuberant from th
June 29, 1914:Khioniya Guseva stabs Rasputin in the street The close bond established by Rasputin with the most important members of the Russian imperial family, it made him disliked by many, who could not stand that a bizarre, almost illiterate Siberian monk had achieved a position of such pres
The recipe for chicken with Marsala is taken from Artusi After some time I go back to posting recipes directly taken from Artusi , which always have great success on the blog. For those who do not know or do not remember, the Artusi is the abbreviation by which the recipe book La is c
A typical ice cream cone The invention of the ice cream cone as we know it today, the edible wafer dates back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. Actually thanks to the poet Giuseppe Parini, which mentions “rigid cones , We know that as early as the 1700s it was customary to eat ice cream k
The cover of the comic book dedicated to Anne Frank (Mondadori) Little Anne Frank, over the last few decades, she has become, despite her, the very symbol of an era and the horrors of Nazism. Now the tragic story of this unfortunate girl and her family lives on in the pages of the comic boo
It might seem that the children of dictators have everything. After all, their fathers are the richest and most influential people in the state. One nod from them is enough to fulfill every whim of a son or daughter. However, there is also the other side of the coin. These same satraps can, in a wor
Before the war, he dreamed of building houses. Instead, he is responsible for creating a fictional reality wrapped in false passes and permits. With their help, he cheated the Germans from Warsaw to Paris. How did he do that? General Julius von Hallmann was a strange figure. A fortification spec
The Parioli district in Rome Everyone knows, at least by hearsay, the Parioli, and everyone knows that this term refers to one of the upper districts, in the sense of affluent, of Rome, but who or what does this name come from? Looking at it now and strolling through the streets dominated by
Barter Mariangela Lavecchia, a girl with a degree in Law, sent Pills of History an article that briefly traces the salient stages between the barter and the sale. Happy reading. Barter in antiquity In our legal system the sales contract is governed by art. 1470 cc, pursuan