by Mauro Mariottini | Jul 17, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta
Maginardo, also known as Maginardo of Arezzo, was an Italian architect who worked in the XI century in the diocese of Arezzo and in particular the Hillock of Pionta, the Episcopal seat and home to the cathedral. His most important work was the renovation of the...
by Mauro Mariottini | Jul 17, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta
It is certain that St Romuald made at least one visit to the Bishop Tedald in 1023 at the Hillock of Pionta, but it is highly likely that made others were made too. Tedald considered Romuald his spiritual father, and on his request Romuald went on to found the...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta, Insights
Cosimo I de ‘Medici (Florence, June 12, 1519 – Florence, April 21, 1574) was the second duke of Florence and, later, the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruled from 1537 to 1574. Son of the leader Giovanni delle Bande Nere and Maria Salviati, Cosimo came to...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta, Insights
Piero or Pietro Strozzi (1510 – Thionville, June 21, 1558) was an Italian leader, member of the family patrician Florentine Strozzi, son of Filippo Strozzi and Clarice de ‘Medici, arch enemy of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the 20 / July / 1554 camped and...
by Mauro Mariottini | Apr 1, 2014 | Characters, Hill of Pionta, Insights
The term cremona, in this case, has nothing to do with the city of the same name, but a name probably derived from pre-Roman Gallic origin, linked to variant pre-Latin “carm” of the term “carra” meaning rock, and the rock of the ordinary...
