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Participate in Florence’s 2020 "Festival of Writers" Participate in Florence’s 2020 "Festival of Writers" a cura di MAGENTA FLORENCE abbonati a 25 maggio 2020 This year the 14th edition of the Festival of Writers will engage the public from May 26 through May 28, despite the pandemic putting this singular literary Florentine festival online. The aut...

Waiting for the next ! Claudia Durastanti, author of "La Straniera" (La Nave di Teseo)- shortlisted for Il Premio Strega - will be at Gonzaga in Florence on Wednesday November 13th at 6.30pm, interviewed by Alessandro Raveggi. SAVE THE DATE!
In collaboration with The FLR - The Florentine Literary Review, Premio Gregor von Rezzori - Festival degli Scrittori and Santa Maddalena Foundation

GREAT EVENT AT GONZAGA IN FLORENCE LIBRARY!

20 marzo con Lisa Halliday per la prima volta a Firenze ita-eng at a cura di e in collab con

Incredibly ancient

over 1300 years ago, the oldest surviving, complete Latin Bible in the world began its journey to Italy. This October, Codex Amiatinus will return to the British Isles for the first time since 716 CE http://bit.ly/2sEhAhp

Image © Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

Thank you, Anna Maria Luisa.

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici: The Last of the Medici "Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici" by Antonio Franchi 1690-1691, Palazzo Pitti Anna Maria Luisa (or Ludovica) was the last living descendant of the Medici governing line, and the powerhouse woman whose Family Pact ensured that the Medici family legacy would remain in Florence f...

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“You can keep as quiet as you like, but you can’t hide from Monday.”

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~W.B. Yeats

"Headmaster" by Children's Book Christine Kornacki Illustration (christinekornacki.com) Christine Kornacki

You can't go out without that this evening!

Happy Halloween!

A Witch's Toolkit, procured from a professional witch — "a pleasing woman of about forty" — in Naples, Italy in 1897.

The toolkit includes a padlock for securing the action of the charm upon an enchanted person who must obey until it is unlocked; a magnet for carrying on the person and drawing a lover irresistibly; a horse-shoe and a stone whorl to protect against witchcraft, often fastened behind a house door; and an old flint and two steels, purpose unknown but related to fire-making.

These objects came to the Folklore Society via Alfred Cort Haddon. They were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1965.
PRM 1965.3.216b: objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID185846.html