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The recipes of the Florentine culinary tradition, enhancing their simplicity, veering some of them towards an accuracy in the procedures to discover the presence and taste of each individual ingredient.

The Jacquelin de Montluçon Project' was conceived as a research and exhibition programme that would bridge the gap between academic discovery and the desire to address a broad public. Text in English and French.

Offers a rich and varied overview of the illustrated postcard, which was once an extremely popular means of conveying messages through words and images. Text in English and Italian.

Marco Tanzi the leading expert on 16th- and 17th-century Cremonese painting delves into some hitherto unknown aspects of the Sofonisba Anguissola's artistic production.

The collection of maps and colonial vistas from Holland, Portugal and Spain provide us with insight into the shape of the world in the mid-17th century as well as information about the circulation of people and ideas.

The protagonist of this book is the history of Florence, from its origins to that fateful day, narrated in the first person by the Electress Palatine herself, accompanied by her inquisitive and loyal servant Maria.

Artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, "Angels Listening", an interactive exhibition featuring seven large-scale bronze angels staged around a silver confessional box, each figure rendered in silence with its mouth "taped" shut. This book accompanies the exhibition.

This publication discusses a bronze Laocoön recently sold at Bonham's. Della Valle helped us interpret correctly the bronze and its attribution in the Doccia models' inventory.

The catalogue is the narrative guide for the exhibition held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana dedicated to cocoa.

All the paintings in the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, in alphabetical order by the names of the artists with a brief biography of each artist and a recent photograph of each work.

The volume takes the form of a refined collection of table settings used in the private residences of the most eminent Tuscan families. Text in English and Italian.

A sort of journey to discover and rediscover aspects, anecdotes and curiosities of Florence, this atypical city, where every street, even the narrowest one, tells a story. Text in English and Italian.

This volume looks at Caravaggio's Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff, a recent arrival in the Klesch Collection. Text in English and Italian.

The catalogue illustrates the complex link between Dante, his work and Florence, analysing the dense network of relationships between painters, illuminators, copyists and commentators, engaged in an unprecedented editorial and artistic enterprise.

This monograph on Leonardo da Vinci focuses on the relationship between the artist, humanity and nature.

A colorful and entertaining survival kit for teenagers visiting in Florence. Here is all a young reader needs to wear out his shoes, as he follows in the footsteps of Philip and his eccentric guides.