Recanati Italy - The video is dedicated to my dear Lory ✿⊱╮
Recanati is a town and comune in the Province of Macerata, in the Marche region of Italy. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th century, was famous for its international fair. In March 1798 it was conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte.
It is the hometown of tenor Beniamino Gigli and poet Giacomo Leopardi, which is why the town is known to some as the city of poetry. It contains the Teatro Persiani named after the composer of operas in the first part of the 19th century, Giuseppe Persiani, who was born in the town in 1799.
The origin of Recanati are unclear, although the area was inhabited since prehistoric times by the Piceni. In Roman times, the river Potenza, which was navigable then, saw the rise of two cities: Potentia, at the mouth, and Helvia Recina, located more inland. When the Goths led by Radagaisus ravaged the region around 406 AD, their inhabitants took refuge on the hills, perhaps founding the modern Recanati, which would take its name from Ricina.
In the 12th century, during the controversies between Frederick Barbarossa and the Papacy, Recanati expelled the feudal counts which ruled its area, and gave itself a communal constitution under the lead of consuls (consoli). In 1203 they were replaced by podestà. In 1228, when Barbarossa's nephew Frederick II was also in conflict with the popes, Recanati sided for him, and was thus given the whole control of the seaside, and the right to found a port (the modern Porto Recanati). In 1239, however, Recanati supported the pope, and the following year Gregory IX gave it the title of City and bishopric seat that had been previously held by the nearby Osimo.
In the early 14th century, the strife between Guelphs and Ghibellines plagued also Recanati. After the citizens, among the others, ravaged and plundered the cathedral, and later killed some Guelph (pro-papal) exponents, in 1322 papal mercenaries besieged Recanati, and destroyed its fortifications, the main Ghibelline palaces and the Priors' Palaces. The Pope pardonded the city in 1328, while the bishop's seat was restored only in 1354. In 1415 Recanati hosted former Pope Gregory XII, who died here two years later.
At the time, the town was home to a popular trading fair, which was further boosted by Pope Martin V in 1422. During several centuries of economical prosperity, Recanati housed jurists, writers and artists such as Lorenzo Lotto, Guercino and others.
Recanati was occupied by Napoleonic troops in 1798. In 1831 it took part to the Risorgimento riots, and was annexed to the newly formed Kingdom of Italy in 1860 after the dissolution of most of the Papal States.
• Church of Santa Maria di Castelnuovo: this 12th century church has a portal with a Byzantine style lunette, signed and dated 1253, depicting the Madonna enthroned with Sts Michael and Gabriel. The interior has a fresco by Pietro di Domenico of Montepulciano.
• Montefiore Castle: dates to the late Middle Ages. It has a polygonal plan with a high tower with merlons.
• Church and cloister of Sant'Agostino (13th century), remade one century later together with the cathedral. It has a portal in Istrian stone by Giuliano da Maiano. In the 18th century, the interior was remade redecorated according to a design by Ferdinando Galli da Bibbiena, with canvases by Pomarancio[disambiguation needed], Pier Simone Fanelli, andFelice Damiani.
• Carabinieri barracks (14th century).
• Church of San Vito, built over a pre-existing Romanesque-Byzantine edifice. It was given the current appearance in the mid-17th century, only the apse and the bell tower remaining of the former structure. The façade was remade after an earthquake in 1741 according to a design by Luigi Vanvitelli. Artworks in the interior include canvases by Pomarancio, Fanelli, Felice Damiano da Gubbio (1582), Giuseppe Valeriani (1550) and Paolo de Matteis (1727).
• Co-Cathedral of St. Flavian (14th century), with the annexed bishop's balace and the diocesan useum. Pope Gregory XII is buried here.
• Church of San Domenico (15th century), with a 1481 portal by Giuliano da Maiano. It houses the Glory of St. Vincent Ferrer by Lorenzo Lotto.
• Church of San Pietrino (14th century), with an 18th-century façade attributed to Vanvitelli.
• Church of Madonna delle Grazie (1465).
• Palazzo Venieri, designed by Giuliano da Maiano.
• Palazzo Mazzagalli, designed by Giuliano da Maiano or Luciano Laurana.
• Neolithic necropolises of Fontenoce and Cava Kock (4th millennium BC).
• Town Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, housing, among other paintings, Lorenzo Lotto's Recanati Polyptych.
Stupro di Primavalle, il video della denuncia
Alemanno, INSIEMEAROMA.IT: Stupro di Primavalle, fermate ancora al buio. Ecco il video scandalo che lo prova.
Lo scorso 21 aprile, in occasione del Natale di Roma, il Sindaco Alemanno ha illuminato i Fori Imperiali con la serata Romagnificat provocando numerose polemiche relative ad alcuni filmati proiettati durante la manifestazione.
Nelle stesse ore, i ragazzi di INSIEMEAROMA.IT armati di telecamere e di un grande proiettore hanno scelto di illuminare le tante ombre della città. Un viaggio nel degrado e nella desolazione delle periferie della città che tracciano un bilancio molto amaro di un anno a marcia indietro per la capitale. Un viaggio non solo simbolico tra gli angoli più nascosti di Roma tra prostituzione, disagio, abbandono, povertà. Le prostitue riempiono le vie consolari, i barboni si trovano in condizioni disumane per le strade, anche per le vie del centro. Abbiamo trovato intere strade dimenticate nel buio, con lilluminazione fuori uso da tempo, con una manutenzione stradale ormai al limite del sostenibile (come abbiamo peraltro documentato nella ricerca Hypermatrix presente sul nostro sito).
Nel corso del viaggio, infine, una tristissima scoperta: abbiamo deciso di andare a vedere quale fossero le condizioni delle fermate del 916 a via Andersen, al Quartaccio, nel quartiere di Primavalle. Proprio dove, come è a tutti tragicamente noto, una donna è stata barbaramente violentata il 21 gennaio scorso. Sin da subito, quel giorno, finirono sul banco degli imputati il degrado della zona e soprattutto la mancata illuminazione delle fermate, come rilevò addirittura il Ministro Maroni. Il nostro video dimostra come, incredibilmente, ancora oggi, ad oltre 3 mesi di distanza da quel tragico episodio lo stato di quelle fermate sia rimasto lo stesso, se non peggiorato. Dove sono finite le tante promesse del Sindaco sul tema della sicurezza?? Che fine hanno fatto i suoi annunci pieni di mai più?
Gli sbandieratori di Borgovelino - 17/08/14
40 anni e non sentirli..
Cerchi family
The Florentine banking family of the Cerchi, minor nobles of the Valdarno, with a seat especially at Acone near Pontassieve, settled in Florence in the early thirteenth century and increased their fortunes. The family became the heads of a consortium of the prominent Guelfs that securely controlled Florence after the battle of Benevento in 1266. In Florence, the Cerchi purchased some of the ancient structures in the closely packed inner city formerly belonging to the counts Guidi, cheek-by-jowl with the proud Florentine family of the Donati, with whom their growing mutual antagonism was expressed in violent episodes that polarized Florence within a couple of decades in a virtual civil war that aligned behind two captains, Corso Donati of the Neri Guelf faction— the Black Guelfs of the old noble oligarchy— and Vieri de' Cerchi of the Bianchi, the moderate party that represented itself as champions of working people (the magri). The resulting violence lasted, with irruptions of tranquility, into the fourteenth century.
In 1289 a plot had been intercepted at Arezzo, by which the city's bishop agreed to give over to the Florentines Bibbiena Civitella, and all the villages of his see, in return for a life annuity of 5,000 golden florins a year, guaranteed by the bank of the Cerchi. These rumors led to the confrontation of Guelfs and Ghibellines at the Battle of Campaldino, 11 June 1289, in which the young Dante Alighieri took part and Vieri dei Cerchi lost his life.
In the popular uprising of 2 May 1299, the podestà Corso Donati was expelled, and with him the Donati faction. The Cerchi faction prevailed. In May the following year a brawl between Donati and Cerchi erupted, in which one of the Cerchi had his nose slit, but plots to restore Donati, who had become podestà of Orvieto, were unsuccessful. Matters were complicated when Pope Boniface VIII sent Carlo of Valois, brother of The king of France Philip IV to restore peace between Bianchi and Neri. He favoured the Neri: Dante, who had married Gemma Donati, was among those Bianchi dispossessed and banished in 1302, and marked Boniface as destined for the eighth circle of Hell in his Inferno.
In Florence, the house of the Alighieri was a few hundred paces from the cluster of tower houses of the Cerchi, which were restructured in the fourteenth century to form a rambling Palazzo dei Cerchi in the isolated block (insula) fronting via dei Cimatori and via della Condotta behind Piazza della Signoria. This was the power center of the Cerchi: their church was the little Santa Margherita dei Cerchi of which the arms of the patrons, Cerchi, Adimari and Donati, may still be seen on its thirteenth-century doorway. This was the church of Dante's Beatrice Portinari.
The Palazzo, now renovated, has been the home of the study abroad program for Kent State University since 2003.
Another palazzo dei Cerchi, facing into Piazza di Santa Croce, was entirely rebuilt in the seventeenth century as the Palazzo dell'Antella.
The public charity and personal piety of Blessed Umiliana de' Cerchi (c. 1219-19 May 1246) became the object of a popular cult in Florence immediately after her death; it resulted in her beatification in 1634.
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