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The Florentine is a monthly magazine about art and culture, news and events in Florence, Italy.
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Best events in Florence this March
Enter Tutankhamon's tomb, relive your Grunge days with photographs of Kurt Cobain, catch some Korean cinema and focus on food this month in Florence.
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Dante's Inferno as limericks and comics
Good Friday, 1300. Dante wakes up in the middle of a dark wood and is found by the Roman poet Virgil, who has been tasked with showing him what happens to the souls who stray. Dante and Virgil enter the gates of hell and pass the Apathetic, who were neither enough for God nor bad enough for the Devil. They then cross the River Acheron to enter the Inferno proper, which descends through nine concentric circles to the centre of the Earth. Harry Cochrane and Leo Cardini get creative with Dante's "Inferno", reworking the magnum opus as limericks and comics.
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Gluttony in the Divine Comedy
by Harry Cochrane
Think back to Dante's lifetime (1265–1321) and count the number of foodstuffs that were unknown to him or his Italy: potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate and maize, to name but a few. Yet somehow the Sommo Poeta was never short of alimentary metaphors when writing about an afterworld where no one needs to eat, but where plenty regret overeating in life. His 14,233-line epic, the Divina Commedia, is after all the most famous work of Italian literature, and it would be strange indeed if the most famous work of Italian literature contained no mention of food.
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CLASSIFIED ADS
Seeking but not finding? If English is your first language and Florence is where you live, you might find what you're looking for in our classifieds.
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Angel Roofbar & Dining: restaurant review
by Helen Farrell
The NYC feeling of endless possibility and excitement struck me on stepping out of the elevator for the first time at Florence newbie Angel Roofbar & Dining. Hit the fifth floor button and soon you'll be on top of Tuscany, one terrace after another surveying the cityscape, up close and personal with Orsanmichele and Palazzo Vecchio as the scent of leather drifts up from the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo.
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Poke in Florence: our top three
by Vincenzo D'Angelo
There's a new way to eat your sashimi: poke bowls. My colleague and I recently invented a new word: Pokedì (take note, Accademia della Crusca!) It's a combination between poke and venerdì (Friday), and the result is that we're ordering this delicious dish almost once a week. Originating with Hawaiian fishermen who seasoned the offcuts from their catch as a snack, it's caught on as a culinary trend and several poke restaurants have opened in Florence. Here's our top three…
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BOOKS + SPECIALS
The Florentine Press books are the product of a community, your community.
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The spas of southern Tuscany
by Helen Farrell
A ring-necked pheasant swooped and crowed close to the car on one of the bends on the final approach to Saturnia. Suddenly, sulphur was in the air, cloying at my nostrils as the natural wonders appeared in glorious view. In the valley, bathers were unwinding in the ice-blue travertine pools of Cascate del Mulino carved over thousands of years.
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