Lucrezia Borgia: beauty, treachery and power in Sermoneta

Lucrezia Borgia: beauty, treachery and power in Sermoneta

Even today, many still wonder whether Lucrezia Borgia was as beautiful as Pietro Bembo claimed. He kept a golden lock of her hair among his papers. The portraits of the time do not seem to dispel this doubt, but we must also take into account that the parameters of...
Gavignano

Gavignano

Sixty kilometres from Rome, the narrow winding streets of Gavignano lead up to its Baronial Palace. This palace played a major role in the history of the community. It stands where there once was a military outpost, which was later fortified. Eventually a palace was...
Romantic Lazio

Romantic Lazio

Medieval villages and castles unchanged over the centuries, beautiful rustic farmhouses surrounded by greenery, palazzetti and historic houses of great artistic value. In Lazio, you will find many ideal locations to satisfy everyone’s wishes, tastes and needs and make...
From Bassiano to the USA, the fame of Manuzio has no borders

From Bassiano to the USA, the fame of Manuzio has no borders

A revolutionary, lover of literature, “entrepreneur,” inventor … who is he? If you haven’t guessed yet, here are two other clues: small portable books and italic type. He is Aldo Manuzio, a native of Bassiano! It is precisely in the Pontine province...
Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante

Born in Rome in 1912 from her mother’s extramarital relationship, little Elsa spent her childhood with her three smaller siblings in the working class district of Testaccio. A real bookworm, the young author began to write nursery rhymes and fairy tales for children,...