tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72389821314313712392024-03-18T09:47:44.274+00:00Best of BergamoTIPS AND ADVICE FOR VISITORS TO THIS LOVELY ITALIAN CITYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-50575818811068873962024-02-02T21:20:00.007+00:002024-02-04T14:33:12.009+00:00Lago di Endine<h3 style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Bergamo's tranquil lake</h3><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlF-p77Q1AbdMGuRLQtdGoT2l_uCsQtS8PZryMWj7I9Or9bGviAu6mFeutT7pO8i7X61YF7FCdh3aC8OPu8KilSjQhDre4a-Huzv6joxr-DlzdNrjTR6Hh9MPBFyrigIEMMktgHh9bBN2DN3XAntWOm0EpuW_mG3_hmkjnSkA6nxgFu-qyzr7bO2a3PGh/s4032/IMG_1490.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Monasterolo del Castello looks over the southern end of Lago di Endine" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlF-p77Q1AbdMGuRLQtdGoT2l_uCsQtS8PZryMWj7I9Or9bGviAu6mFeutT7pO8i7X61YF7FCdh3aC8OPu8KilSjQhDre4a-Huzv6joxr-DlzdNrjTR6Hh9MPBFyrigIEMMktgHh9bBN2DN3XAntWOm0EpuW_mG3_hmkjnSkA6nxgFu-qyzr7bO2a3PGh/w320-h240/IMG_1490.jpg" title="Monasterolo del Castello looks over the southern end of Lago di Endine" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monasterolo del Castello looks over the<br />southern end of Lago di Endine</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>As well as the many delights the city has for visitors
to discover, Bergamo province has its own picture-perfect lake, Lago di Endine,
a shimmering gem out in Val Cavallina.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Surrounded by banks of thick reeds, which provide an ideal
breeding ground for fish and birds, the lake offers a tranquil spot for both
local people and tourists to relax in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can walk all the way round Lago di Endine’s 14
kilometres (8.7 miles) of shores on well-maintained level footpaths, and take in its unique
beauty, while pausing occasionally to take pictures, or rest at the many
benches and picnic tables thoughtfully placed around the lake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the summer, the clean waters of the lake are ideal
for swimming, sailing, canoeing, and windsurfing, but motor boats are not
allowed on the lake to preserve the peaceful atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During the winter, the lake can sometimes become
frozen over. People used to skate on it in the past, but this is now forbidden
by the municipality for safety reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8gQKpoQtGaNhHAmz3PD0pQTgrFsOgaGLgLntcASVKxtG124rI29gnO8fvPcDbZmqDL5IGlThjyY7JoCOKxN1n980FTlKiMYnH1iva4giHoJ3ycY7RC-wC-z8SE_X8RrBd63qMe9ZYBNttDD9EcF4-9njd-GCcUilrOQ_IiSUwwRKE2ynFxBGJruw5DxfX/s4032/IMG_2212%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Snow-capped mountain peaks are visible in this winter view at the northern end" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8gQKpoQtGaNhHAmz3PD0pQTgrFsOgaGLgLntcASVKxtG124rI29gnO8fvPcDbZmqDL5IGlThjyY7JoCOKxN1n980FTlKiMYnH1iva4giHoJ3ycY7RC-wC-z8SE_X8RrBd63qMe9ZYBNttDD9EcF4-9njd-GCcUilrOQ_IiSUwwRKE2ynFxBGJruw5DxfX/w320-h240/IMG_2212%20(1).jpg" title="Snow-capped mountain peaks are visible in this winter view at the northern end" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow-capped mountain peaks are visible in<br />this winter view at the northern end</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lago di Endine is long and narrow, almost like a
river, and you can walk all the way round it comfortably in a day, while
remaining close to the water and completely undisturbed by any traffic. The depth of the water is 9.4 metres (31 feet) at its deepest point.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The clear waters of Lago di Endine are regularly replenished
by torrents of water that descend from the slopes of the surrounding mountains. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The surrounding villages of <b>Monasterolo del Castello, Endine Gaiano,
Spinone al Lago and Ranzanico </b>all have bars and restaurants with terraces with
superb views over the lake. Local dishes and fresh fish from the lake, such as
perch, carp, eels, pike, and tench, are on the menus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are plenty of car parks for visitors to use situated
above the lake and there are regular buses from Bergamo to Lago di Endine that stop at various points along the lake. The journey takes around 35 minutes by car and up to 50 minutes by bus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-34165368038444622392023-08-28T11:26:00.003+01:002023-08-28T13:30:56.899+01:00Bergamo sculptor Giovanni Maria Benzoni<div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Artist who lived in Rome but stayed in touch with ‘home’ city</span></h3><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmRCwLOLaNvj7dtUZ_SbqEJPyuJ4mh4PdtCJN2LY2O8ZcBXWVCiscuUnnmXmI0ZmDKHWEHQZWzgeJR8pQuCgi4IETadU3hRlCNLTe8f8NlIdrhrXm70nG_WrPk5LlCpmKp7k3VY0oonB_0Ovlek2ImaYUNtXT7tgVU3piNPYaZPzmOpj1tOlomHhSbP2a/s293/220px-Gianmaria_Benzoni_01.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Benzoni's self-portrait bust resides at the Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai" border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmRCwLOLaNvj7dtUZ_SbqEJPyuJ4mh4PdtCJN2LY2O8ZcBXWVCiscuUnnmXmI0ZmDKHWEHQZWzgeJR8pQuCgi4IETadU3hRlCNLTe8f8NlIdrhrXm70nG_WrPk5LlCpmKp7k3VY0oonB_0Ovlek2ImaYUNtXT7tgVU3piNPYaZPzmOpj1tOlomHhSbP2a/s16000/220px-Gianmaria_Benzoni_01.jpg" title="Benzoni's self-portrait bust resides at the Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benzoni's self-portrait bust resides<br />at the Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai</td></tr></tbody></table>The 19th century sculptor Giovanni Maria Benzoni, who was born in a mountainous village about 35km (22 miles) north of Bergamo, spent the whole of his working life in Rome and achieved considerable fame there, yet always regarded Bergamo as his spiritual home and often returned to the city.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He became a member of the University of Bergamo and accepted commissions to create busts of famous citizens. His own self-portrait bust resides in the <b>Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, </b>on Piazza Vecchia in the Città Alta. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Benzoni became so famous in Rome in the first half of the 19th century that collectors and arts patrons in the city dubbed him the “new Canova” after the great Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Born on 28 August, 1809 - 214 years ago today, Benzoni moved to Rome as a teenager to take a job in another sculptor’s workshop and to study his craft at the prestigious Accademia di San Luca, later setting up his own workshop in the capital, where he produced hundreds of allegorical and mythological scenes as well as busts and funerary monuments. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Yet he was regarded by Romans as a <i>bergamasco</i> - one of a celebrated group of <i>bergamaschi </i>based in Rome in the early 19th century, including the composer <b>Gaetano Donizetti, </b>the philologist <b>Cardinal Angelo Mai</b> and the painter <b>Francesco Coghetti.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He was later commissioned to sculpt a monumental tomb for Cardinal Mai in the <b>Basilica of Sant’Anastasia al Palatino </b>in the centre of Rome.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6mmGmmm04AkPcUoscAYuHGkprmNFAclyhN0zJgmrSYK_vrkWRuL_axJELkEwfPqzmeD9t_1y6UnjF8PUQXDRgIvar0xPpWr2VSvntgkzV3X08kHuTUZuUWn1URxCAC33g1s7V66cNY0bnezJNB8-n18Mex25MjvwjXXOvqG3nGgysUs0WvNGqS5IrmiY/s800/Clusone,_Torre_dell'Orologio.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The frescoed Torre dell'Orologio in the town of Clusone, hear Benzoni's home village" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6mmGmmm04AkPcUoscAYuHGkprmNFAclyhN0zJgmrSYK_vrkWRuL_axJELkEwfPqzmeD9t_1y6UnjF8PUQXDRgIvar0xPpWr2VSvntgkzV3X08kHuTUZuUWn1URxCAC33g1s7V66cNY0bnezJNB8-n18Mex25MjvwjXXOvqG3nGgysUs0WvNGqS5IrmiY/w320-h240/Clusone,_Torre_dell'Orologio.jpg" title="The frescoed Torre dell'Orologio in the town of Clusone, hear Benzoni's home village" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The frescoed Torre dell'Orologio in the town<br />of Clusone, hear Benzoni's home village</td></tr></tbody></table>Benzoni was born in <b>Songavazzo,</b> a village in the province of Bergamo just outside <b>Clusone,</b> a beautiful small town nestling on a plain against the backdrop of the <b>Alpi Orobie</b> - sometimes translated as the Orobic Alps. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">His parents, Giuseppe and Margherita, were poor farmers. Giovanni Maria worked briefly as a shepherd, but his father died when he was around 11 years old, after which he was sent to work in his uncle’s small carpentry shop at <b>Riva di Solto</b>, on the western shore of <b>Lago d’Iseo,</b> around 40km (25 miles) from Bergamo.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He began to show a talent for carving religious statues which came to the attention of a wealthy patron called Giuseppe Fontana, who was impressed enough to speak about him to Count Luigi Tadini, who would later open the Tadini Academy of Fine Arts in <b>Lovere, </b>another town on Lago d’Iseo.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tadini asked Benzoni to make a copy of the Stele Tadini, the sculpture made for him by Antonio Canova in memory of the count’s son Faustino, who had died at a young age.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He was so impressed by Benzoni’s attention to detail and the accuracy of the reproduction that he arranged for him to attend a college in Lovere. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgOHg02j3FsAjVXV793JLLvjTTlJWkBCH36G9618On0UuuiJ9s3OsmQw6zyq_kiWm7oIz0t-qqVP2so9I9GM1Du5ui0sainDpq9CYZrLnAesqLjypNYKjLRqLhkjb3Gr-jE0usparJ2NW7hG2gohOGhvA4UewzORbVtn0J0F2xkSjcWXVwykXf8cOpZIPj/s1600/1200px-BG-Lovere-250-fontana-monumento-conte-Luigi-Tadini.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Benzoni's bust of his patron, Count Luigi Tadini, by the lake in Lovere" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgOHg02j3FsAjVXV793JLLvjTTlJWkBCH36G9618On0UuuiJ9s3OsmQw6zyq_kiWm7oIz0t-qqVP2so9I9GM1Du5ui0sainDpq9CYZrLnAesqLjypNYKjLRqLhkjb3Gr-jE0usparJ2NW7hG2gohOGhvA4UewzORbVtn0J0F2xkSjcWXVwykXf8cOpZIPj/w240-h320/1200px-BG-Lovere-250-fontana-monumento-conte-Luigi-Tadini.jpg" title="Benzoni's bust of his patron, Count Luigi Tadini, by the lake in Lovere" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benzoni's bust of his patron, Count<br />Luigi Tadini, by the lake in Lovere</td></tr></tbody></table>When he reached the age of 18 or 19, having failed to obtain a place for him at the Brera Academy in Milan or at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Tadini took Benzoni to Rome, where he would work in the workshop of Giuseppe Fabris - an artist who would later became director general of the Vatican museums - and attend the prestigious Accademia di San Luca, where his fees were paid by Count Tadini.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Benzoni’s elegant marble sculptures had echoes of Canova’s work and collectors in Rome soon began to speak of him as “il novello Canova” - the new Canova. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After earning some money for his work, he opened a small studio in Via Sant'Isidoro, in the centre of Rome, off the street now called Via Vittorio Veneto. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He later moved to bigger premises in Via del Babuino, between the Spanish Steps and Piazza del Popolo, where he employed more than 50 assistants. Among his most famous works were <i>Cupid and Psyche</i>, the <i>Veiled Rebecca</i> and <i>Flight from Pompeii. </i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Benzoni, who married into a noble Roman family and had six children, sculpted a statue of his first patron, Count Luigi Tadini, which stands on a plinth in a lakeside garden opposite the Tadini Academy in Lovere.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tadini established the <b>Accademia di Belle Arti Tadini</b> in the lakefront Palazzo Tadini in 1829 and it has become one of the most important art galleries in Italy. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Benzoni died in Rome in 1873.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xm6ImnhL1fDJ0L0Dxk2aEoccu7KYJgeEqBDmc_CvIlj0HydfOUtkBXFwNVn4HLd_NRfPqqCEPxxcAZaHBR91hxVTf9C7Nr5p1B6boyuCYzqNEZC5r4LZGVIAXl3NJxD2wStKGXj9IhUHRYbs8LLAdEl7Wo31d22SXv8Kznkd0M8tfoYO-VzAC-kupw/s800/Bazylika_Santa_Maria_Maggiore_w_Bergamo,_sklepienie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Frescoes by Giovanni Paolo Cavagna illuminate the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore" border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="800" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xm6ImnhL1fDJ0L0Dxk2aEoccu7KYJgeEqBDmc_CvIlj0HydfOUtkBXFwNVn4HLd_NRfPqqCEPxxcAZaHBR91hxVTf9C7Nr5p1B6boyuCYzqNEZC5r4LZGVIAXl3NJxD2wStKGXj9IhUHRYbs8LLAdEl7Wo31d22SXv8Kznkd0M8tfoYO-VzAC-kupw/w320-h249/Bazylika_Santa_Maria_Maggiore_w_Bergamo,_sklepienie.jpg" title="Frescoes by Giovanni Paolo Cavagna illuminate the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frescoes by Giovanni Paolo Cavagna <br />illuminate the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore</td></tr></tbody></table>Late Renaissance painter Giovanni Paolo Cavagna, who became
famous for his religious works of art, died 396 years ago today in his native
city of Bergamo.</b></b></span></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cavagna was mainly active in Bergamo and Brescia, for
most of his career, although he is believed to have spent some time training in
Venice in the studio of Titian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The artist was born in <b>Borgo San Leonardo</b> in the <a name="_Hlk135418836">C</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">ittà</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Bassa in about 1550. The
painter <b>Cristoforo Baschenis Il Vecchio</b> is believed to have taken him as an
apprentice from the age of 12. Cavagna is also thought to have spent time as a
pupil of the famous Bergamo portrait painter Giovanni Battista Moroni.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cavagna’s work can still be seen in many churches in
Bergamo and villages in the surrounding area. In the <b>Basilica of Santa Maria
Maggiore</b> in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Città</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Alta there are paintings by him of the
Assumption of the Virgin, the Nativity, and Esther and Ahasuerus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTw9W6N1uPWcZPLEGrbbEzTMOZYopMXqCEEBF307tMJZL1LGMRHwiUjdSW1-2zTZsOCbdCK_tXMxaAYh8Mkwi2NXLYUDVASMXFTZgiWCymWH3j2YZgVz3HYZXme42OTJw4liT_dv719u6fYDVWRrPcOzRce-znOpGLptLeWspGBr-dxdt6k5ueZjUE3Q/s418/Chiesa_di_Santo_Spirito,_Bergamo%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Church of Santa Spirito in the Città Bassa has works by Cavagna" border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="370" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTw9W6N1uPWcZPLEGrbbEzTMOZYopMXqCEEBF307tMJZL1LGMRHwiUjdSW1-2zTZsOCbdCK_tXMxaAYh8Mkwi2NXLYUDVASMXFTZgiWCymWH3j2YZgVz3HYZXme42OTJw4liT_dv719u6fYDVWRrPcOzRce-znOpGLptLeWspGBr-dxdt6k5ueZjUE3Q/w254-h287/Chiesa_di_Santo_Spirito,_Bergamo%20(2).JPG" title="The Church of Santa Spirito in the Città Bassa has works by Cavagna" width="254" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Church of Santa Spirito in the<br /> Città Bassa has works by Cavagna</td></tr></tbody></table>In the <b>Church of Santa Spirito</b> in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Città</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
Bassa, there are his paintings of Santa Lucia and the Crucifixion with Saints.
He painted a Coronation of the Virgin for the Church of San Giovanni Battista
in the province of <b>Casnigo</b>, which is to the north east of Bergamo, and some of
his paintings can also be seen in the sanctuary of the Madonna del Castello in
<b>Almenno San Salvatore,</b> a province to the north west of Bergamo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The artist also completed a painting of the Crucifixion
for the Church of Santa Lucia in Venice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cavagna’s son, Francesco, who became known as
<b>Cavagnuol</b>a, and his daughter, Caterina, also became painters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After his death in Bergamo in 1627, Cavagna was buried
in the <b>Church of Santa Maria Immacolata delle Grazie </b>in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Città</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
Bassa, but after the reorganization of the lower town in the 19th century, the
church was rebuilt and Cavagna’s tomb had to be moved, and it is now uncertain
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He was awarded academic positions at the University of California, where he invented his ground breaking algorithm.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Viterbi then went on to co-found the American multinational corporation Qualcomm, which became one of the most important communications companies in the world.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">His father, Achille, had been director of <b>Bergamo Hospital’s</b> ophthalmology department in the 1930s and his mother, Maria Luria, who came from a prominent family in Piedmont, had a teaching degree.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But after Mussolini introduced his new <b>racial laws</b> in Italy before the start of World War II, the couple, who were Jewish, were deprived of their positions and unable to make a living to support their family, giving them little option but to leave.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9BP9LDOnvHxEUZwaw6-9kreqlGd2mPuscL_8o3CbH8lfvc5zjz6BcQimgWX3Ho5QjDyV79XQpXxp60CO-wCDhwqhvjPJiOLwzKdwe12XWlWCBOHakPqPek6ZefukoK6iDP8B14ouKXYZIYnVvKtX989e0ycVGghzny2VZfwpeSGpmjbC5R4D07upK2A/s784/maxresdefault%20(2).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Even in his 80s, Viterbi has remained an active member of the scientific community" border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="784" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9BP9LDOnvHxEUZwaw6-9kreqlGd2mPuscL_8o3CbH8lfvc5zjz6BcQimgWX3Ho5QjDyV79XQpXxp60CO-wCDhwqhvjPJiOLwzKdwe12XWlWCBOHakPqPek6ZefukoK6iDP8B14ouKXYZIYnVvKtX989e0ycVGghzny2VZfwpeSGpmjbC5R4D07upK2A/w320-h283/maxresdefault%20(2).jpg" title="Even in his 80s, Viterbi has remained an active member of the scientific community" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even in his 80s, Viterbi has remained an <br />active member of the scientific community</td></tr></tbody></table>They had planned to sail to America on 1 September, 1939, but after receiving a tip-off alerting them to possible danger, they secretly escaped two weeks early and were able to land safely in New York, where a member of their extended family already lived. They then moved to Boston, where Andrea’s name was anglicised as Andrew after he became naturalised as an American.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Andrew Viterbi attended the Boston Latin School and entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952 to study electrical engineering. After qualifying, he worked at Raytheon and then the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, where he worked on telemetry for unmanned space missions and helped to develop the ‘phase-locked loop.’ At the same time, he was studying for his PhD in digital communications at the University of Southern California and graduated from there in 1963.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 1967, while in an academic role at the University of California, he proposed his <b>Viterbi algorithm</b> to decode convolutionally encoded data - a groundbreaking mathematical formula for eliminating signal interference. This allowed for effective cellular communication, digital satellite broadcast receivers, and deep space telemetry.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Viterbi algorithm is still used widely in cellular phones for error correcting codes as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis and other applications. Viterbi also helped to develop the Code Division Multiple Access standard for cell phone networks.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNx23tn36bzt2w8_TBDVbg2LAIPBfMeVFmHoXFRUsJvCGEd3BtrWPrJh4Sq8b4FixKx099lRtk7y1wHIjhYShHLcNnZZGZt9E9Z4l_B1GhiI2j0pVtU8lPRRUyQ9EvQQPEOQs_YLbO7GQeOo78Jzo1McYEFkc4r7pBTjDkSxObr4xny28Iu_6M4ixkGA/s1900/1077.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="There is a dedicated space for art and culture events named after Viterbi at the Palazzo della Provincia" border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="1900" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNx23tn36bzt2w8_TBDVbg2LAIPBfMeVFmHoXFRUsJvCGEd3BtrWPrJh4Sq8b4FixKx099lRtk7y1wHIjhYShHLcNnZZGZt9E9Z4l_B1GhiI2j0pVtU8lPRRUyQ9EvQQPEOQs_YLbO7GQeOo78Jzo1McYEFkc4r7pBTjDkSxObr4xny28Iu_6M4ixkGA/w320-h240/1077.JPG" title="There is a dedicated space for art and culture events named after Viterbi at the Palazzo della Provincia" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is a dedicated space for art and culture events <br />named after Viterbi at the Palazzo della Provincia </td></tr></tbody></table>With Irwin Jacobs, Viterbi was the co-founder of Linkabit Corporation in 1968, and <b>Qualcomm Inc </b>in 1985. He became president of the venture capital company, <b>The Viterbi Group</b> in 2003, which helps new technology businesses start up.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Viterbi has received many awards for his invention of the Viterbi algorithm and a computer centre and an engineering school have been named after him. His algorithm paved the way for the widespread use of cellular technology, which changed the way people communicate worldwide.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recognised in Italy as <i>‘il padre del telefonino’ </i>- the father of the mobile telephone - he has been awarded an honorary degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bergamo.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 2007, Viterbi was honoured by the Bergamo Province, when they named a dedicated space in the <b>Palazzo della Provincia</b> after the engineer. The palazzo, which is in Via Tasso in the Città Bassa, had converted an area to be used for art and culture events, which they called <b>Spazio Viterbi.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div>
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artist left treasure trove of pictures to remember him by</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJl2fDBu0UA-UehaLRslPlIRuwD78yx05IfDunvtaSCUOyFyhiW_rQcEx1IrkHFAHKXWGovnDoRSscvmBZG3gvCAUmh-nXiiUdNNCy2XxV5SLSyrDBMvGtSNPNQvLOyBWPl1wcMGa4uO1M2bFCgWP0DCdqIapne8JrFdM1MXdMAV8L7Sjml0MrvcP7w/s800/800px-ESalmeggia_Martirio_SAlessandro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="800" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJl2fDBu0UA-UehaLRslPlIRuwD78yx05IfDunvtaSCUOyFyhiW_rQcEx1IrkHFAHKXWGovnDoRSscvmBZG3gvCAUmh-nXiiUdNNCy2XxV5SLSyrDBMvGtSNPNQvLOyBWPl1wcMGa4uO1M2bFCgWP0DCdqIapne8JrFdM1MXdMAV8L7Sjml0MrvcP7w/s320/800px-ESalmeggia_Martirio_SAlessandro.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enea Salmeggia's <i>Il Martirio di Sant'Alessandro</i><br />hangs behind the altar of Sant'Alessandro in Colonna</td></tr></tbody></table>Enea
Salmeggia, who was active during the late Renaissance period and left behind a
rich legacy of paintings in Lombardy, died on 25 February 1626 in Bergamo.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Salmeggia,
also known as <b>Il Talpino</b>, or <b>Salmezza</b>, spent time in Rome as a young man, where
he studied the works of <b>Raphael.</b> His style has often been likened to that of Raphael
and he has even been dubbed the ‘Bergamo Raphael’ by some art enthusiasts. A
drawing in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, of two figures seated along with some
architectural studies, was previously attributed to Raphael, but has now been
ascribed to Enea Salmeggia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The artist
was born at Salmezza, a frazione of <b>Nembro</b>, a comune in the province of
Bergamo, between 1565 and 1570. It is known that Salmeggia grew up in <b>Borgo San
Leonardo </b>in Bergamo, where his father, Antonio, was a tailor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">He learnt
the art of painting from other Bergamo painters and is also believed to have
studied under the Bergamo artist Simone Peterzano in Milan. <b>Caravaggio</b> was one
of Peterzano’s most famous pupils and it has been suggested that Salmeggia
could have been studying with Peterzano at about the same time as Caravaggio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8FGqs_LZXY2S_A-SlASyMiMiVvE6jI7HUY-PnYrDAlx3517cU7UDHW5rqbvmxagp6agyyqxJqs3bF7rfYS9Fx1fbPxUP2KvsLkxV1vnvSOKe_6I_FsK6koUvJJIUp1Q_8g648agaJIHoRi90wIFKbQ7f1liSX2iLU4LPxmE_Poy2qPAW58XjUxDNag/s960/800px-ESalmeggia_ritratto_di_gentiluomo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Salmeggia's Portrait of a Gentleman can be seen at Accademia Carrara" border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8FGqs_LZXY2S_A-SlASyMiMiVvE6jI7HUY-PnYrDAlx3517cU7UDHW5rqbvmxagp6agyyqxJqs3bF7rfYS9Fx1fbPxUP2KvsLkxV1vnvSOKe_6I_FsK6koUvJJIUp1Q_8g648agaJIHoRi90wIFKbQ7f1liSX2iLU4LPxmE_Poy2qPAW58XjUxDNag/w267-h320/800px-ESalmeggia_ritratto_di_gentiluomo.jpg" title="Salmeggia's Portrait of a Gentleman can be seen at Accademia Carrara" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salmeggia's <i>Portrait of a Gentleman</i><br />can be seen at Accademia Carrara</td></tr></tbody></table>Salmeggia was
so young when he received his first commission to paint an <i>Adoration of the
Magi </i>for the <b>Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore</b> in Bergamo that his father had to
sign the acceptance document on his behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The artist married
Vittoria Daverio, the sister of Milanese sculptor Pietro Antonio Daverio, and
they had six children. Two of their children died from the plague and one went
into a monastery, but his daughters, Chiara and Elisabetta, and his son,
Francesco, helped in his workshop near the <b>Church of Sant’Alessandro in Colonna</b>
in Via Sant’Alessandro, and they later became painters themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">One of Salmeggia’s
most famous works,<b> <i>Il Martirio di Sant’Alessandro</i></b>, an oil on canvas, completed in
1623, can still be seen behind the altar in the Church of Sant’Alessandro in
Colonna.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Church
has a Roman column in front of it, which is believed to mark the exact spot
where Bergamo’s patron saint, Sant’Alessandro was martyred by the Romans in 303
for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. Every year, on 26 August, the
<b>Festa di Sant’Alessandro</b>, Bergamo people commemorates Sant’Alessandro’s
decapitation there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Salmeggia died in Bergamo in 1626 he was buried in the
Church of Sant’Alessandro in Colonna.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are paintings by Salmeggia in the churches of
Sant’Andrea and Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano in Bergamo and the Accademia Carrara,
a prestigious art gallery in Bergamo, also has works by Salmeggia, including
his <i>Portrait of a Gentleman</i>. Further afield, there are paintings by Salmeggia
in Brescia, Lodi and Milan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In Nembro, the suburb where Salmeggia was born, the <b>Church
of San Martino</b> has no fewer than 27 of his paintings for visitors to admire.</span></p></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-27874856995393316412023-01-23T23:01:00.005+00:002023-01-24T19:52:30.483+00:00Bergamo becomes Capital of Culture<div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Teatro Donizetti hosts televised launch show</h3><div><br /></div><div><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Qwq09_iO47zb063EwUGng4S4iJX3UtwElwHQYppvdQpPxpcCT3SOC6l_Cmc6tBvyP6C4Np3dbGEyFcA5M3KdOeHmi8BkQ30mofqg62RUwGmIBrvdb3hu2RWRfjAt1NyuwKAG1eV4lFUnIAm2cZm5CZFl_q1-pLB6ISpM3O2GWVWjpXgm_PY-qZjhyQ/s1160/Fm73bCOXEAE8eRL%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bergamo's mayor, Giorgio Gori, speaks to the audience at Teatro Donizetti" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1160" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Qwq09_iO47zb063EwUGng4S4iJX3UtwElwHQYppvdQpPxpcCT3SOC6l_Cmc6tBvyP6C4Np3dbGEyFcA5M3KdOeHmi8BkQ30mofqg62RUwGmIBrvdb3hu2RWRfjAt1NyuwKAG1eV4lFUnIAm2cZm5CZFl_q1-pLB6ISpM3O2GWVWjpXgm_PY-qZjhyQ/w244-h212/Fm73bCOXEAE8eRL%20(2).jpg" title="Bergamo's mayor, Giorgio Gori, speaks to the audience at Teatro Donizetti" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bergamo's mayor, Giorgio Gori, speaks<br />to the audience at Teatro Donizetti</td></tr></tbody></table>Bergamo has become the official Italian Capital of Culture for 2023 alongside another historic city in Lombardy, Brescia. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>To demonstrate that Bergamo and Brescia have joint status and are working in tandem, a sophisticated televised launch event was held at <b>Teatro Donizetti</b> in Bergamo on 20 January, linked to an inauguration ceremony taking place simultaneously 50km (31 miles) away at <b>Teatro Grande</b> in Brescia.</div><div><br /></div><div>The programme switched alternately between the stages in Bergamo and Brescia, with Italian President <b>Sergio Mattarella </b>able to watch everything that took place on the stage at Teatro Donizetti from his front row seat in the theatre in Brescia.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, Italian culture minister<b> Gennaro Sangiuliano</b> was among the distinguished guests in Teatro Donizetti watching everything happening on stage in Brescia.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bergamo and Brescia were awarded the joint culture capital honour in 2020 by the Italian Government, as ‘a symbol of hope and rebirth’ following the sadness caused by so many deaths during the Covid 19 pandemic, which had such a devastating effect on both cities.</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfe7bRivKdw7EoBING51zbuhWL00K5maUHjNjM49S2xXhJCMyr2rVoCdbnGiR0PNRRX7Q1M7Hd5VeJzQNBVp0xmxNmhsfb-zhwwtzwCKA1KEY9zPiUxqcQOH7-Se1b6uHnGuWP5xnctU-0rkwWQQ35rvGTyPiskEQuhsplfJJ-lk7plgQH7qUWMBpO3Q/s680/FnAskI-XkAEZ8gQ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The spectacular scene in the centre of Bergamo, where 20,000 people gathered on Saturday evening" border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfe7bRivKdw7EoBING51zbuhWL00K5maUHjNjM49S2xXhJCMyr2rVoCdbnGiR0PNRRX7Q1M7Hd5VeJzQNBVp0xmxNmhsfb-zhwwtzwCKA1KEY9zPiUxqcQOH7-Se1b6uHnGuWP5xnctU-0rkwWQQ35rvGTyPiskEQuhsplfJJ-lk7plgQH7qUWMBpO3Q/w320-h240/FnAskI-XkAEZ8gQ.jpg" title="The spectacular scene in the centre of Bergamo, where 20,000 people gathered on Saturday evening" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The spectacular scene in the centre of Bergamo, <br />where 20,000 people gathered on Saturday evening<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>For the whole of this year, Bergamo and Brescia will become ‘a single city illuminata’, a united, enlightened city, which will host cultural events such as art exhibitions, music festivals and opera performances, contributing to economic prosperity and encouraging more visitors to the area.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a taste of the delights to come, there was a performance from the stage in Brescia by a guitarist and violinist, and from Bergamo, by a soprano, accompanied by a pianist, who sang an aria from the opera <i>Don Pasquale </i>by Donizetti.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Mayor of Bergamo, <b>Giorgio Gori,</b> said the year as Capital of Culture would be a fresh start for both cities and would showcase the natural beauty and artistic patrimony of the territories as well as the local cuisine and wine. He said: ‘Culture, as well as being an essential lever for attracting tourism, is vital for improving the life of our communities.’</div><div><br /></div><div>The launch was followed on Saturday by a spectacular open-air show in the heart of the Città Bassa, entitled <i>I Nuovi Mille,</i> featuring singing, music, acting, dance and storytelling, in which professional artists were joined by a thousand citizens of Bergamo from the city and the province.</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyuoLxWZdpC-OsvoWIn27JsQbfB00gYW1oskMZS5aXxyc88iwZbxWipYIeD0CdDZYP-30Q4PXhv8wDNLShfz2l8o6tI_7pz7nsMECfJqYwOpjEGbCiy00ZDT8jtQFxgG9qydlu9zY79karKiMy7jm2o4Lpy014d3udQ_7qYyKwa_pgc5uWRWOmU515g/s900/FnA6-ZDWQAA4Vjd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A firework display added to Saturday's festivities" border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyuoLxWZdpC-OsvoWIn27JsQbfB00gYW1oskMZS5aXxyc88iwZbxWipYIeD0CdDZYP-30Q4PXhv8wDNLShfz2l8o6tI_7pz7nsMECfJqYwOpjEGbCiy00ZDT8jtQFxgG9qydlu9zY79karKiMy7jm2o4Lpy014d3udQ_7qYyKwa_pgc5uWRWOmU515g/w180-h320/FnA6-ZDWQAA4Vjd.jpg" title="A firework display added to Saturday's festivities" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A firework display added to<br />Saturday's festivities</td></tr></tbody></table>Bergamo is known as the Città di Mille because of the large participation of Bergamo citizens in Garibaldi’s <b>Spedizione dei Mille</b> in his campaign to unite Italy in the 19th century.</div><div><br /></div><div>The show, watched by a crowd of 20,000 people, was preceded by four simultaneous processions from different points in the city, each arriving at the <b>Piazza Vittorio Veneto,</b> the square beyond the propylaea of the Porta Nuova looking towards the Città Alta, for a 50-minute performance followed by an open-air party lasting until midnight.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the opposite end of the Viale Papa Giovanni XXIII, in the <b>Piazzale Marconi </b>in front of the railway station, another extraordinary show, featuring lights, projections, music, acrobats and fireworks, added to the spectacle.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next month, Bergamo will become an open air art gallery, with a host of events featuring national and international artists taking place in the city.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are hundreds of other events as well as cultural and educational initiatives planned for both Bergamo and Brescia throughout 2023.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-78594186614599087402022-12-25T10:36:00.002+00:002022-12-25T10:36:40.530+00:00Bergamo sparkles even more at Christmas<div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-OTQbvO5bPDwriFldOT9bWrWyo8TFrA5kk1RTZQ-nGQYLPWBA7atPqzNvysKUc3SvxRgLIHVOPt80PnDrrvnMtYRkxiGllDvIm6diqchYLcfjy6aKXRVuuX-Aq9aMyM7s_Icz05dMFNW8i9j86jYCmECLndOrfqADc2KzGhteRzX93ojLSZidXLj0g/s2231/IMG_1225%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bergamo's streets sparkle even more with Christmas lights" border="0" data-original-height="2231" data-original-width="1926" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-OTQbvO5bPDwriFldOT9bWrWyo8TFrA5kk1RTZQ-nGQYLPWBA7atPqzNvysKUc3SvxRgLIHVOPt80PnDrrvnMtYRkxiGllDvIm6diqchYLcfjy6aKXRVuuX-Aq9aMyM7s_Icz05dMFNW8i9j86jYCmECLndOrfqADc2KzGhteRzX93ojLSZidXLj0g/w276-h320/IMG_1225%20(1).JPG" title="Bergamo's streets sparkle even more with Christmas lights" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bergamo's streets sparkle even more<br />with Christmas lights</td></tr></tbody></table>Thousands of twinkling lights, colourfully decorated Christmas trees and lovingly recreated nativity scenes, known in Italian as presepi, make Bergamo an even more magical city at Christmas.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And if you are a food lover, Bergamo is a good place to visit during the festive season because the focus is firmly on the feasting in the city’s restaurants.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On <b>la Vigilia di Natale</b> (Christmas Eve), a fish meal is traditionally consumed by Italians, consisting of several different courses, after which any adults who are still able to move may go to midnight mass.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But on <b>Natale </b>(Christmas Day) it is the time for the serious feasting to start. Some of the bars and restaurants will be open to serve church goers after the morning service and many families choose to go to a restaurant for their Christmas lunch. Booking in advance is essential, with restaurants taking names and contact numbers months in advance.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you go to a Christmas feast in a friend’s home, the meal will begin with an antipasto course, which is likely to include <b>Parma ham</b> or <b>bresaola</b> - dried, salted beef - with preserved mushrooms, olives, and pickled vegetables.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTWH15jyjinXLeJUb_KcuXqJSIevqldGz3UDtKI0Lh846b7yAgFNAAALbT6Gh8EaetEEg5dM2ABHP8091-4lqsKFAuk6_2NRBNLpg9B8CSZn_vvSY6fLyCSteFHT-O-sT2YoiTTWmuyYZPQZzNVHI_pVTnFxfVKzvGl-klnS7i0lBBKyQGL7kEMEiI-A/s1920/food-ge40628364_1920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Panettone is a traditional part of the Christmas table for families across Italy" border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTWH15jyjinXLeJUb_KcuXqJSIevqldGz3UDtKI0Lh846b7yAgFNAAALbT6Gh8EaetEEg5dM2ABHP8091-4lqsKFAuk6_2NRBNLpg9B8CSZn_vvSY6fLyCSteFHT-O-sT2YoiTTWmuyYZPQZzNVHI_pVTnFxfVKzvGl-klnS7i0lBBKyQGL7kEMEiI-A/w320-h213/food-ge40628364_1920.jpg" title="Panettone is a traditional part of the Christmas table for families across Italy" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panettone is a traditional part of the Christmas<br />table for families across Italy</td></tr></tbody></table>Stuffed pasta is usually served as a primo piatto - first course - either in the shape of <b>ravioli or tortellini. </b>This shape of pasta is said to have been inspired by a beautiful woman who was staying at an inn in the region of Emilia Romagna. The innkeeper is reputed to have tried to spy on her through a keyhole but all he could see was her navel.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Tortellini in brodo,</b> traditionally served in capon broth, is a classic Christmas day dish and for the main course, <b>turkey or capon </b>is likely to be served with potatoes and vegetables as side dishes.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The traditional end to the meal is almost always <b>panettone,</b> served warm, accompanied by a glass of sparkling wine.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Italian folklore has it that panettone was concocted by a Milanese baker, Antonio (Toni), to impress his girlfriend one Christmas in the 15th century. The result was so successful that ‘Pane de Toni’ has become a regular feature of the Christmas season all over Italy and now even abroad.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The feasting and family parties continue on 26 December, the festa di Santo Stefano (Boxing Day).</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Happy Christmas and Buon Natale to all my readers!</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/" target="_blank">Home</a> <a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/p/main-sights_19.html" target="_blank">Main Sights</a> <a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/p/book-hotel-in-bergamo.html" target="_blank">Bergamo Hotels</a> </div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-92043095862303606942022-12-13T15:00:00.004+00:002022-12-13T15:00:33.509+00:00Enrico Rastelli – ‘the greatest juggler who ever lived’<div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LYC4wk84MiqNwbwuaX41M1hsxw22dSw0BBbtvLofk9q3ZIZTtn_eDeHRNaBPh2qFrL8xDVGqIxEQu14dq9x0Lpq68GG737eot4Jo7oKgaLeKL_btFE0v5nWM1E8VbENS4utCBQpAQ6Mcf2eFgx6iE5FPd-tSvYbIaUR29Cj9soA3sJiACBqxfhr8IA/s690/Capture%20(3).PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The house in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi that Enrico Rastelli had built for his family" border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="690" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LYC4wk84MiqNwbwuaX41M1hsxw22dSw0BBbtvLofk9q3ZIZTtn_eDeHRNaBPh2qFrL8xDVGqIxEQu14dq9x0Lpq68GG737eot4Jo7oKgaLeKL_btFE0v5nWM1E8VbENS4utCBQpAQ6Mcf2eFgx6iE5FPd-tSvYbIaUR29Cj9soA3sJiACBqxfhr8IA/w320-h267/Capture%20(3).PNG" title="The house in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi that Enrico Rastelli had built for his family" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi that<br />Enrico Rastelli had built for his family</td></tr></tbody></table>If you happen to be walking along Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Città Bassa, pause for a moment outside No 9.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind the elaborate wrought iron railings is a beautiful villa built in Stile Liberty, the Italian twist on Art Nouveau that was popular among architects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are plenty of other examples of the style in Bergamo’s lower town but No 9 Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, nextdoor to the Conad supermarket on the section between <b>Via Sant’Alessandro</b> and <b>Via Sant’Antonino,</b> has a special story.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was built for Enrico Rastelli, who is thought to have been the greatest juggler that ever lived.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Rastelli had been born in Russia in 1896, into a circus family originally from the Bergamo area. Both his parents were performers and trained him in circus disciplines including acrobatics, balancing, and aerial skills. He made his debut at the age of 13 as part of his parents’ aerial act.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHwAmM4o0zc0lGXmCxZepAWgjczpVt1H-sSpGwYL7BPEiaqhMOIFy4_SQFNIzJh7gLusG2J1xwsNVf8bLqoogNxZek4oq_cBhBpOvj88uDGA7ZeM2UsMT23TIgxESRgP988PgZCuIaXfjUUdqT8xkBaMEHlTSFSricJ7B5Wc89Yu_qqiYnv2WYZ1OLg/s800/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-12785,_Enrico_Rastelli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHwAmM4o0zc0lGXmCxZepAWgjczpVt1H-sSpGwYL7BPEiaqhMOIFy4_SQFNIzJh7gLusG2J1xwsNVf8bLqoogNxZek4oq_cBhBpOvj88uDGA7ZeM2UsMT23TIgxESRgP988PgZCuIaXfjUUdqT8xkBaMEHlTSFSricJ7B5Wc89Yu_qqiYnv2WYZ1OLg/s320/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-12785,_Enrico_Rastelli.jpg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rastelli specialised in working<br />with sticks and balls</td></tr></tbody></table>His real love, though, was juggling and he practised his skills constantly until he was able to achieve levels of technical brilliance beyond those of any of his contemporaries. By the age of 19, his juggling act was a big draw in itself.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">While many jugglers at the time would throw and catch plates, hats, and canes, Rastelli restricted himself to working with balls and sticks in the Japanese style, outperforming any other juggler of his time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">By the 1920s he had become a star, touring Europe and America, amazing audiences with his skill and amassing large earnings.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually he made the move to performing in vaudeville shows in theatres where he would appear in full football strip and juggle up to five footballs at a time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1917, Rastelli married <b>Harriet Price</b>, a highwire artist, and they had three children. They frequently toured Europe with his act and his villa in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi became their permanent home in Italy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tragically, Rastelli’s life was cut short by illness and he passed away 109 years ago today, at the age of just 34.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvOa3WE_-TSoXy0KJAXNu4pzzPGg3me6_77nndVc7r_pRXa86SNF-WP9ttJ_eUkQIZWHpwo4ah3gKM78tZNtmWzC6QW-DLNcY-KvjMhrM6R8O8MgnsQ4OJ1fjeeZbg2TeftPUkixTo8NZjZViVp-cP3nAPfphSzn849i8GDmwsLBMDNdROi0EE9Uk83A/s562/RastelliTomb%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A full-size statue stands in front of the Rastelli tomb" border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="395" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvOa3WE_-TSoXy0KJAXNu4pzzPGg3me6_77nndVc7r_pRXa86SNF-WP9ttJ_eUkQIZWHpwo4ah3gKM78tZNtmWzC6QW-DLNcY-KvjMhrM6R8O8MgnsQ4OJ1fjeeZbg2TeftPUkixTo8NZjZViVp-cP3nAPfphSzn849i8GDmwsLBMDNdROi0EE9Uk83A/w225-h320/RastelliTomb%20(2).jpg" title="A full-size statue stands in front of the Rastelli tomb" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A full-size statue stands in<br />front of the Rastelli tomb</td></tr></tbody></table>He contracted pneumonia while on tour in Europe and though he was able to return to his home in Bergamo to convalesce, his condition worsened and he died in the early hours of the morning of 13 December of anaemia. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When his funeral took place in Bergamo, it was attended by thousands of people. He was buried in the <b>Cimitero Monumentale</b> in Bergamo and a life-sized statue of him was erected at his tomb, showing him spinning a ball on his raised finger.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The February 1932 edition of <i>Vanity Fair </i>magazine included a full-page photograph of Rastelli, captioned: ‘One of the most sensational attractions in the international world of vaudeville.’ The magazine said Rastelli had elevated juggling to an art, ‘due not only to the amazing agility and complexity of the juggling itself,’ but also ‘to the incredible ease of his execution, and the visual impression made on the audience.’</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b><a href="http://www.juggling.org/fame/rastelli/index.html" target="_blank">Juggling Hall of Fame</a></b> website says Rastelli was ‘the most famous and in the opinion of many, the greatest juggler who ever lived.’ They say that as well as his work with large balls, he could also juggle up to ten small balls, which is generally considered to be the record. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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<div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4hEDX_FZPUKmVjRi93g8YrdR4Jv-y11CCQO-XliHG1Wu6mNYHiRh9i3-3zCJrBlH_MPCqwHBXxHBWWWV6KFd4LuyDI7qXjSm4MwMIYSFWHwo6bUfFRetKuF7T88CIlDh084lcdNDp2oBq7emjzVSR3LJ4jdaKTeW6y8u9htsp79NwmTKyOkgpphkDw/s1204/1.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="PolentOne's stall is tucked away under an archway opposite the funicular station" border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4hEDX_FZPUKmVjRi93g8YrdR4Jv-y11CCQO-XliHG1Wu6mNYHiRh9i3-3zCJrBlH_MPCqwHBXxHBWWWV6KFd4LuyDI7qXjSm4MwMIYSFWHwo6bUfFRetKuF7T88CIlDh084lcdNDp2oBq7emjzVSR3LJ4jdaKTeW6y8u9htsp79NwmTKyOkgpphkDw/w250-h320/1.jpg" title="PolentOne's stall is tucked away under an archway opposite the funicular station" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PolentOne's stall is tucked away under<br />an archway opposite the funicular station</td></tr></tbody></table>Uninspiring and dingy takeaways often greet you when you arrive in a town or city by train but that is not the case when you emerge from the funicular station into Bergamo’s wonderful Città Alta.</b></div></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here, the first food outlet you see is an unassuming stall built under an archway leading from the <b>Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe </b>up some steps<b> </b>to the<b> Piazzetta Luigi Angelini, </b>directly opposite the entrance to the station.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>PolentOne</b> provides an immediate introduction to <i>cucina bergamasca</i> and is about as far a cry from the ubiquitous kebab shop as is possible to imagine. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As the name suggests, PolentOne’s menu is dominated by polenta, with its versions heralded as the best in the city. Aside from a few panini filled with local meats and cheeses, almost all dishes feature the local cornmeal and buckwheat staple. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The owners clearly have a sense of humour, too. <i>Polentone</i> - meaning polenta-eater - is a term some southern Italians use to describe northerners, and not necessarily in a complimentary way!</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PolentOne's dishes follow a simple format - a choice of <i><b>bramata</b></i> (plain) or <b><i>taragna</i></b> (made with cheese) polenta topped with a range of delicious local specialities.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After a morning’s sight-seeing in the Città Alta, PolentO</span>ne is the ideal spot to rest your feet for a quick, tasty and good-value lunch. </div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My wife and I both opted for the delicious polenta taranga, usually made with <i>Branzi </i>or other Alpine cheeses. I picked the <i>salamella</i> (local salsiccia) as a topping and my wife, the <i>ragù cinghiale </i>(wild boar sauce), each costing just seven euros.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIgfhTVCFrNYzYSo47QL5J6lEFZLQMklujKiwZNrlC_Q1T4g7PMa0leBCEm2JH1J4TR8OfDhl7wVzvP8V5Hh9uCm5Kcy58kLb0Pe0_XFxB-4s1kfSu8AJmjjRs3iAKwkNLLUUDu9s2iz3kobFKMLIdCRZchCPD7HPE8keVKa3ELVIaiE03GuS6uUEzbg/s533/polentone.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIgfhTVCFrNYzYSo47QL5J6lEFZLQMklujKiwZNrlC_Q1T4g7PMa0leBCEm2JH1J4TR8OfDhl7wVzvP8V5Hh9uCm5Kcy58kLb0Pe0_XFxB-4s1kfSu8AJmjjRs3iAKwkNLLUUDu9s2iz3kobFKMLIdCRZchCPD7HPE8keVKa3ELVIaiE03GuS6uUEzbg/s320/polentone.png" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Polenta served with <span style="text-align: left;"><i>ragù cinghiale </i><br />(top) and the local</span><i style="text-align: left;"> salamella </i><span style="text-align: left;">sausage</span></td></tr></tbody></table>For very little extra you can add a bottle of Peroni and a glass of white wine before pulling up a pew at one of the tables to wait for your counter to buzz signifying your food is ready.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The aromas emanating from the kitchen make the wait seem long but in reality it is only five minutes or so. You are presented with steaming hot bowls of <i>polenta taragna</i>. The grilled <i>salsiccia</i> was worthy of a restaurant, while the <i>ragù</i> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">tasted like it had been simmering for hours despite being served in the time it took to have two sips of wine.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It is a perfect warming lunch - a taste of Bergamo in a bowl for the cost of a drink at a bar. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The next time you arrive in the </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Città</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Alta by funicular do not make the mistake of writing off PolentOne as ‘just another station takeaway’. To do so would be a great disservice to a food outlet serving what must be the best polenta in Bergamo.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div>
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In 1914 they did find a home ground in <b>Via Maglio del Lotto</b>, adjoining the railway line just outside Bergamo station.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The ground had a small grandstand housing 1,000 spectators. It is said that the drivers of trains approaching the station would slow down in order to enjoy a few moments of the action.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In the event, after Italy was drawn into World War One, the club remained in Via Maglio del Lotto for only two seasons. With so many young men going off to fight, the club suspended its activities and sold the ground.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHBjTKPLxSvxPCTjbmNotaH2NnYYlTcGbnHMDR7J0vdB9L8bcqU-5PuGe-3yxL8MMJNhNJmcEWyRLMFRT6aSgM-QCsq9iJ4-qf6bE8hUkzSd16fRYy-U8WqofRmBhe5AxRJj3oSHOdIDCRqFxSf3FRB5UwqYBzzBPZ8Uy-852SjJQWP3-djv8xPYRVg/s800/800px-Atalanta_1913-14.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atalanta's 1913-14 team, which played at a stadium near Bergamo's railway station" border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHBjTKPLxSvxPCTjbmNotaH2NnYYlTcGbnHMDR7J0vdB9L8bcqU-5PuGe-3yxL8MMJNhNJmcEWyRLMFRT6aSgM-QCsq9iJ4-qf6bE8hUkzSd16fRYy-U8WqofRmBhe5AxRJj3oSHOdIDCRqFxSf3FRB5UwqYBzzBPZ8Uy-852SjJQWP3-djv8xPYRVg/w320-h219/800px-Atalanta_1913-14.jpg" title="Atalanta's 1913-14 team, which played at a stadium near Bergamo's railway station" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atalanta's 1913-14 team, which played at a<br />stadium near Bergamo's railway station</td></tr></tbody></table>When the club was reconstituted before the start of the 2019-20 season, they established a new home, named the <b>Clementina Stadium</b>, on the site of a former racecourse to the southeast of the city centre.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By that point, club members were eager to join the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and compete in their league but Bergamo had another team with similar ambitions, called <b>Bergamasca, </b>which had evolved from a club started by Swiss emigrants in 1904.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The FIGC would allow only one team from Bergamo to compete in their Prima Categoria, as their first division was then called. To decide which of them would represent the city, in 1919 a play-off was arranged, which Atalanta won 2-0.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In the event, the two clubs agreed to merge in 1920, forming a new club which at first was called Atalanta Bergamasca di Ginnastica e Scherma 1907, <i>scherma</i> being fencing. It was soon shortened to <b>Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, </b>which remains its name today. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The club now plays at the <b>Gewiss Stadium </b>on Viale Giulio Cesare in the northeast of the city, a short walk from the centre of the Città Bassa - the lower city - and visible in the panoramic view available from vantage points on the eastern side of the Città Alta.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The stadium has been their home since 1928. It was built during the Fascist era at a cost of 3.5 million lira and originally named Stadio Mario Brumana after a Fascist official, which was common practice with public buildings at the time.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcvPGo99uvV1-2TnftRUMRFQBMVaRWWbKOwpTcHwxAcXSq3lZfV8DSDJ_8ePDdeUsWZ7t8Nlplc03jSNYnioAr5efXEf9UdmqGPVZ5083qaNcnokZwZ-S7_h4QSccTUHr6tilr-3e_66B7otDD7wllay2wpzPFtCvgYRWOgGFcwmndrCQqy_MGEDAFQ/s800/800px-The_outside_of_the_Gewiss_Stadium_in_2020.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bergamo's 94-year-old stadium was given an impressive facelift with the Gewiss sponsorship" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcvPGo99uvV1-2TnftRUMRFQBMVaRWWbKOwpTcHwxAcXSq3lZfV8DSDJ_8ePDdeUsWZ7t8Nlplc03jSNYnioAr5efXEf9UdmqGPVZ5083qaNcnokZwZ-S7_h4QSccTUHr6tilr-3e_66B7otDD7wllay2wpzPFtCvgYRWOgGFcwmndrCQqy_MGEDAFQ/w320-h240/800px-The_outside_of_the_Gewiss_Stadium_in_2020.jpg" title="Bergamo's 94-year-old stadium was given an impressive facelift with the Gewiss sponsorship" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bergamo's 94-year-old stadium was given an<br />impressive facelift with the Gewiss sponsorship</td></tr></tbody></table>After the Fascist regime was overthrown in World War Two, the ground was renamed Stadio Communale and gradually expanded to allow more than 40,000 spectators to attend matches. It became the <b>Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia </b>in 1994 and in 2019 adopted the Gewiss name after the club signed a sponsorship deal with the Swiss electronics company.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At the same time as Atalanta moved into the ground in 1928, the Italian championship was restructured with the top division renamed Serie A, as it is today.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Atalanta were initially placed in Serie B but within a decade had been promoted to Serie A. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Atalanta have never won the Serie A, yet have the proud record of having spent 62 seasons in the top division, 28 in Serie B and only one in Serie C, which is the best record of any team not based in a regional capital.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The current team, managed since 2016 by <b>Gian Piero Gasperini, </b>are enjoying one of the most successful spells in the club’s history, having qualified for the Champions League three seasons in a row and twice reached the final of the Coppa Italia.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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Rice, cooked and stirred with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency, is a classic of northern Italian cooking.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">They can be incredibly simple dishes, but are delicious, even if they just contain onion, short grain rice, wine, chicken or vegetable stock, and <i>parmigiano</i> cheese. Add beef marrow to the mix and dissolve saffron in the stock and you have the famous <b>risotto alla milanese, </b>which dates back to the beginning of the 19th century.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I once discovered a recipe for a risotto made with onion, carrots, peas and zucchini that claimed to be <b>risotto alla bergamasca </b>and I featured it on this website in 2011.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But coincidentally, in 2010, the year before my post, Bergamo chef, restaurateur and hotelier Pino Capozzi had given to his beloved city something that Milan had been enjoying for 200 years - a risotto that they could call truly their own.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwzV0gudZmefFc58p_90NeNc4o7hADgVXMjfswa7ZbfvBPapQtURD4h-5Ysikruv2LhC_fq92NefaXQFLHAYFI5GFnwLAUL_BMHriz0MDfNVKBQbKiSp_CgX_foU1ZfqC6GkzrEmo2NBraU_9wNq4XFB8BQNRcZ4V_H9OlqYZ17C-z7qrJvZY5MxlYA/s2773/unnamed%20(2).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Most of the major supermarket chains stock Taleggio among their continental cheeses" border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="2773" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwzV0gudZmefFc58p_90NeNc4o7hADgVXMjfswa7ZbfvBPapQtURD4h-5Ysikruv2LhC_fq92NefaXQFLHAYFI5GFnwLAUL_BMHriz0MDfNVKBQbKiSp_CgX_foU1ZfqC6GkzrEmo2NBraU_9wNq4XFB8BQNRcZ4V_H9OlqYZ17C-z7qrJvZY5MxlYA/w320-h231/unnamed%20(2).jpg" title="Most of the major supermarket chains stock Taleggio among their continental cheeses" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the major supermarket chains stock<br />Taleggio among their continental cheeses</td></tr></tbody></table>In his recipe for risotto alla bergamasca, the star ingredients were local sausage - la salsiccia - or, in dialect, <b>la loanghina </b>- and Taleggio cheese. The wine poured on to the toasted grains of rice was, of course, my own personal favourite, <b>Valcalepio Bianco.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just as they had polenta alla bergamasca and casoncelli alla bergamasca, the proud city now had <b>risotto alla bergamasca.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The recipe aimed to showcase the products that Bergamo is justifiably proud of: loanghina, the local sausage, Taleggio cheese, and Valcalepio Bianco wine. It was flavoured by the herb that you always see scattered on casoncelli - sometimes called casonsei - fresh sage.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The challenge for a fan of cucina bergamasca living in England, such as myself, was how to replicate the authentic flavours when trying out the recipe at home.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Taleggio cheese is sold by several of the major supermarket chains - mine came from Asda - and through research I discovered that Cumberland sausage was made to a recipe similar to that of loanghina. I also found that Pinot Grigio used some of the same grape varieties as Valcalepio Bianco. (Of course, I know Pinot Grigio doesn’t taste nearly as good, but sadly Valcalepio Bianco isn’t widely available in the UK!)</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjINhMewHF-PcDt5frrW4-vbOqp2n_NUAlG31c3AlOf2yEJOrxYBtSoJ5DmxHoKOeomWli4xuGVUzh-Nng2MTSKXhe_ni6kD9jGU1MOL898i9wu-8nGXs44Ot9yc0xs0uomDIFX5zO2JF89P_Cul9Cl2EgOGpZTO6Q1Y_z65pwMglNH9ZbfnU0N8cv60w/s3082/DF5A32AD-7AFD-44A7-AA54-DEBE508B1949.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Valcalepio Bianco is the local white wine in Bergamo" border="0" data-original-height="3082" data-original-width="1217" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjINhMewHF-PcDt5frrW4-vbOqp2n_NUAlG31c3AlOf2yEJOrxYBtSoJ5DmxHoKOeomWli4xuGVUzh-Nng2MTSKXhe_ni6kD9jGU1MOL898i9wu-8nGXs44Ot9yc0xs0uomDIFX5zO2JF89P_Cul9Cl2EgOGpZTO6Q1Y_z65pwMglNH9ZbfnU0N8cv60w/w176-h448/DF5A32AD-7AFD-44A7-AA54-DEBE508B1949.jpg" title="Valcalepio Bianco is the local white wine in Bergamo" width="176" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Valcalepio Bianco is the<br />local white wine in Bergamo</td></tr></tbody></table>Here then, is my anglicised version of <b>Risotto alla Bergamasca</b> for two people:</div></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ingredients:</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>150 grams of risotto rice - Arborio or Carnaroli</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>40 grams of butter</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>100 grams of fresh Cumberland pork sausage, removed from its skin and formed into small balls</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>60 grams of Taleggio cheese cubed</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>a litre of vegetable or chicken broth</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>half a glass of white wine</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>a shallot</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>sage leaves</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>black pepper.</i></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Method:</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Fry the shallot in half of the butter in a large saucepan with a couple of sage leaves. When the shallot has softened and started to turn gold, remove the sage and add the sausage and fry for a couple of minutes. Then add the rice and toast it in the butter for a few minutes before pouring in the glass of white wine.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When the wine has evaporated, continue to cook the rice, while adding ladles of the hot broth. When the rice has reached the perfect consistency, remove the pan from the heat and add the rest of the butter, a pinch of ground black pepper and the cubes of Taleggio. Serve on hot plates.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Buon appetito dall'Inghilterra!</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div>
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Archeologico di Bergamo</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibyfNRYpgGnZbk1SoGUiMbI_GQhVSQ9G2aSnDXv23eXrouAx4sbTnimTXs3zQnStZsZM6JLX_4xJCpTa82s4cStceevMwEu7GTsjSzCJSiFfVY-uCXRlMcmdXG74bJ1wLD942QPojchAsiwxXbVpyDICd6zHVvgW2sfe8-9sMSdzSYTQZ1LQZ2QRWdPQ/s917/Capture%20(2).PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Museum is housed in a 14th century palace in Piazza della Cittadella" border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="917" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibyfNRYpgGnZbk1SoGUiMbI_GQhVSQ9G2aSnDXv23eXrouAx4sbTnimTXs3zQnStZsZM6JLX_4xJCpTa82s4cStceevMwEu7GTsjSzCJSiFfVY-uCXRlMcmdXG74bJ1wLD942QPojchAsiwxXbVpyDICd6zHVvgW2sfe8-9sMSdzSYTQZ1LQZ2QRWdPQ/w320-h183/Capture%20(2).PNG" title="The Museum is housed in a 14th century palace in Piazza della Cittadella" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The museum is housed in a 14th century<br />palace in Piazza della Cittadella</td></tr></tbody></table>You can
travel in the footsteps of the Celts, Romans and Longobards who built Bergamo by
visiting the Civic Archaeology Museum to see the wealth of artefacts that have
been uncovered over the centuries in the city and the surrounding area.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Items dating
back to the <b>Neolithic </b>period in prehistoric times reveal Bergamo’s ancient
origins. Stone axes, iron swords, Celtic bronze ornaments and Longobard gold
crosses are among the items on display in the museum. Bergamo’s Roman period is
particularly well represented with a wealth of sculptures, inscriptions, tomb
stones and funerary items.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Civic Archaeology
Museum is now housed in a 14th century palace in<b> Piazza della Cittadella</b> in the </span><a name="_Hlk114413328">Citt</a><span lang="EN-US">à</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Alta, but its collection dates back as far as 1561, when Bergamo’s Great
Council established ‘a collection of antiquities’ for people to view in the
loggia under Palazzo della Ragione in Piazza Vecchia in the </span>Citt<span lang="EN-US">à</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> Alta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The original
display of artefacts has increased hugely over the centuries thanks to the many
valuable items that have been unearthed locally and donated to the collection and
the museum has had to move to many different locations in the city as it kept
requiring more space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC25Zof4ZlFPqUHx2txcRfRVhKkvbftx4Y66lch5asyDdvspNOE_mOeA_cPI8uXX-MiEOPicixxPir3aYB_X3dVYw337NSxpns_S-I7cZTb4ImSi7A5spLz9feXJg5aeG_85JTRsY4art1tZsMFCYHjdROy-kPEddp2pLW-PyzRyQRtzjIeeeENCtxcQ/s693/ww081e000001exvh32303_C_760_506%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The museum has collections of artefacts from many periods of history unearthed locally" border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="693" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC25Zof4ZlFPqUHx2txcRfRVhKkvbftx4Y66lch5asyDdvspNOE_mOeA_cPI8uXX-MiEOPicixxPir3aYB_X3dVYw337NSxpns_S-I7cZTb4ImSi7A5spLz9feXJg5aeG_85JTRsY4art1tZsMFCYHjdROy-kPEddp2pLW-PyzRyQRtzjIeeeENCtxcQ/w320-h202/ww081e000001exvh32303_C_760_506%20(2).png" title="The museum has collections of artefacts from many periods of history unearthed locally" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The museum has collections of artefacts from<br />many periods of history unearthed locally</td></tr></tbody></table>A special
publication registering the most notable archaeological discoveries in the care
of the museum was published in 1900 by Professor Gaetano Mantovani. All the important
finds were gathered together in the 1930s and given a home in the <b>Rocca</b>
fortress, where they were kept safe during World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
collection was moved in 1960 to its present location, where it now occupies the
ground floor of a palace built in the 14th century by the <b>Visconti </b>family.
Milan’s ancient rulers, in Piazza Cittadella.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are
rooms displaying prehistoric, bronze age, Iron age, gallic and Longobard items.
There is plenty of evidence from the Roman period in Bergamo, with an important
collection of funerary epigraphs from the area. There are rooms devoted to the
city’s history from the early urban settlement of the fifth century BC to the
Roman city becoming a municipium in the age of Caesar- Augustus. Artefacts from
the Longobard duchy in the early Middle Ages include fascinating examples of the
pieces of armour worn by soldiers at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The museum
is open between October and December from 9.00 to 13.00 and 14.00 to 17.00
Thursday and Friday and from 10.00 to 13.00 and 14.00 to 17.30 on Saturday and
Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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ticket is three euros and the ticket is also valid for entry to the Natural Science
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There were just 18 passengers on board. </div><div><br /></div><div>The anniversary was marked by a presentation at the <b>Teatro Donizetti</b> in Bergamo’s Città Bassa, at which Giovanni Sanga - the president of SACBO, the company that runs the airport - explained how traffic through the airport has expanded so rapidly in the last 20 years that Orio al Serio - known nowadays as <b>Il Caravaggio</b> - is now the third busiest airport in Italy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Built on the site of what had been a World War Two military airfield, Il Caravaggio handled more than 13.8 million passengers in 2019 - the last full year before the Covid-19 pandemic - which meant only Rome Leonardo da Vinci and Milan Malpensa were busier. In 2000, the numbers of passengers through the airport was only one million</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIq1eIq0-PSXGCGC7E8CSJlGa5RZz9gb0JvgjIMb1Jvj-ZYOr_iqJdUDDifosmF2rQFrl0ZjNVKoRYwTSczMyKhdkJ8TYEe1fJK-67uN5kzionkcxCu3lwvMDTQ0DbgOpQ_pXtzwzVtBUEO4ugJQXV5Emp9LHbsYCvEQJMiC7PjbPxcxqjs6GgUzAog/s320/320px-RyanairBergamo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIq1eIq0-PSXGCGC7E8CSJlGa5RZz9gb0JvgjIMb1Jvj-ZYOr_iqJdUDDifosmF2rQFrl0ZjNVKoRYwTSczMyKhdkJ8TYEe1fJK-67uN5kzionkcxCu3lwvMDTQ0DbgOpQ_pXtzwzVtBUEO4ugJQXV5Emp9LHbsYCvEQJMiC7PjbPxcxqjs6GgUzAog/s1600/320px-RyanairBergamo.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ryanair is by far Bergamo's biggest airline today,<br />serving more than 100 destinations</td></tr></tbody></table>Including seasonal charter flights, more than 20 airlines link Bergamo with around 135 destinations. By far the biggest carrier using Il Caravaggio is the Irish airline <b>Ryanair, </b>which flies to more than 100 destinations. The airport - usually referred to in timetables as Milan Bergamo - is Ryanair’s third largest hub after London Stansted and Dublin.</div><div><br /></div><div>Less than four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the city, Il Caravaggio is easily accessible with the Bergamo's railway station only 15 minutes away by the <b>Linea 1</b> service run by ATB (Azienda Trasporti Bergamo). From the station, the service travels along the main thoroughfare through the Città Bassa, stopping within a short walk of most of the major hotels, to Città Alta, to which the journey takes about half an hour.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are plans to open a railway station at the airport in 2024.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Home</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/p/main-sights_19.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Main Sights</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/p/book-hotel-in-bergamo.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Bergamo Hotels</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Educated in the magnificent surroundings of the <b>Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi </b>in the historic Città Alta, he went on to study architecture at the University of Milan but also was keen to become a journalist. He began to contribute to local newspapers, including <i>L’Eco di Bergamo,</i> and the city’s own television station, BergamoTV.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1984 he joined the television station Rete4, which at the time belonged to the Arnaldo Mondadori publishing house and later became part of Silvio Berlusconi’s <b>Mediaset </b>stable. Gori worked for Mediaset for 15 years. Between 1991 and 2001, he was director of the three Mediaset networks, Rete4, Canale5 and Italia1. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was through Canale5 that Gori met his wife, the journalist and TV presenter <b>Cristina Parodi,</b> who was one of the faces of Canale5’s flagship news programme, TG5, which launched in 1992. They were married in 1995, made their home in Bergamo and have three children, Benedetta, Alessandro and Angelica.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gori left Mediaset in 2001 to partner Ilaria Dallatana and Francesca Canetta in setting up a television production company, <b>Magnolia, </b>which specialised in the development and production of original formats for television and interactive media. Magnolia collaborated with the Rai, Mediaset, LA7 and Sky networks and had some memorable successes, including the hit shows <i>L'isola dei famosi, Piazzapulita, MasterChef Italia</i> e <i>L'eredità.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAeG9WwA4gPA11BxbU7weFtKi8FlMEQaAKDzz0X8_aBgzQ9TZatnBuNn1CwZwz1L4OsCwczXAQ3rrxR7gflR28gT8wHxTDixZDzLa824x1LU0vhhzJakHSXwd7tO-DKBv6vtsHmaGNwWYFnmCEkfLXrhbMUCS15PsuqSrLP3Cl6BV3AzkqhT17fhmlA/s2392/Liceo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The neoclassical facade of the Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi in the Città Alta" border="0" data-original-height="2392" data-original-width="1928" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAeG9WwA4gPA11BxbU7weFtKi8FlMEQaAKDzz0X8_aBgzQ9TZatnBuNn1CwZwz1L4OsCwczXAQ3rrxR7gflR28gT8wHxTDixZDzLa824x1LU0vhhzJakHSXwd7tO-DKBv6vtsHmaGNwWYFnmCEkfLXrhbMUCS15PsuqSrLP3Cl6BV3AzkqhT17fhmlA/w258-h320/Liceo.jpg" title="The neoclassical facade of the Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi in the Città Alta" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The neoclassical facade of the Liceo<br />Classico Paolo Sarpi in the Città Alta</td></tr></tbody></table>As a student, Gori had been quite politically active and even as he pursued a career, he never turned away completely from politics. In 2012 he took the bold decision to leave Magnolia in order to devote himself to fulfilling some political ambitions and to help his home city, for which he had much affection.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He joined the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and in 2012 worked as a close adviser to <b>Matteo Renzi,</b> then Mayor of Florence, as he prepared what was ultimately his successful bid to become prime minister.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In Bergamo, Gori set up the InNova Bergamo Association with the aim of studying the issues concerning his city and in 2014 was elected the city’s mayor, defeating the incumbent Franco Tentorio, who represented Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gori failed in his attempt in 2017 to become regional president of Lombardy but in 2019 was re-elected as Mayor or Bergamo, the first to be returned for a second term since the position became subject to a public vote.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">During the first Covid-19 lockdown in Italy, Gori - whose 62nd birthday is today - wrote a book entitled <i>Riscatto - Bergamo e Italia: Appunti per un futuro possibile (Ransom - Bergamo and Italy: Notes for a possible future)</i> in which he describes his life and professional experiences, the story of Bergamo during the first wave of Covid-19, and sets out his view of the path Italy must take to be reborn after the pandemic.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi,</b> the high school attended by Gori, is an historic institution in Piazza Rosate in Bergamo’s Città Alta, opposite the rear entrance of the city’s cathedral. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Identifiable by its neoclassical facade designed by <b>Ferdinando Crivelli,</b> the Liceo has its roots in the first public school of Grammar, Humanities, and Rhetorics established by the Republic of Venice in 1506 under the name of Accademia della Misericordia. It was renamed after Paolo Sarpi, a Venetian polymath, in 1803, by Napoleonic decree. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The building that houses the modern school was built between 1845 and 1852 under the auspices of the Austrian Government, when it was known as Regio Liceo.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1860, the academy contributed to the Italian Unification with 70 students joining Garibaldi's <b>Expedition of the Thousand, </b>aimed at annexing the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the embryonic Kingdom of Italy. In 2011, the academy took part in the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification, attended by the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Garibaldi famously referred to Bergamo as <b>La Città dei Mille,</b> because of the major role it played in the Expedition of the Thousand. </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-438662707675791482022-01-31T06:00:00.005+00:002022-01-31T06:00:00.161+00:00The ‘Godmother of Italian fashion’ <div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bergamo's Mariuccia Mandelli, founder of the Krizia fashion house</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFaLnzOYM5YXzAOORVX2MshvN-y1FjMhsDsZJ6xGRe9h0AkSR3gcoc4o40YUlXHhDrXpYiOqfJLgCjP33nJ2U4-3csSBR_ZU_ixBb-xI7iFH1QJBKawaxl_21EUpZYE8Htcx-2ARoPZjbD5I3IudwERGBgIqmd_yngcRfhpJBY8xct_PpdkOQ3i74vPw=s222" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Krizia fashion house was opened by the former primary school teacher" border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="222" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFaLnzOYM5YXzAOORVX2MshvN-y1FjMhsDsZJ6xGRe9h0AkSR3gcoc4o40YUlXHhDrXpYiOqfJLgCjP33nJ2U4-3csSBR_ZU_ixBb-xI7iFH1QJBKawaxl_21EUpZYE8Htcx-2ARoPZjbD5I3IudwERGBgIqmd_yngcRfhpJBY8xct_PpdkOQ3i74vPw=w272-h108" title="The Krizia fashion house was opened by the former primary school teacher" width="272" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Krizia fashion house was opened<br />by the former primary school teacher</td></tr></tbody></table>Bergamo’s home-grown fashion designer, Mariuccia Mandelli, the founder of the fashion house, Krizia, was born January 31, 1925 in the Città Alta.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Although Mandelli trained to be a primary school teacher on the advice of her mother and pursued a teaching career when she was in her twenties, she had a talent for sewing and had always been interested in fashion. So it took just one lucky break to get her started.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When a friend offered her the use of a flat rent-free for six months, Mandelli went to live in it, bought an old sewing machine and started making clothes. She then launched her label, Krizia, by selling the clothes from her small car, a Fiat 500. She used to drive to shops in Milan with suitcases full of samples in the back and by 1954 had established a ready-to-wear fashion house.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkKu9k93W-49OHNH_5ERvCfnZ_l0hIg6Qvm9egKADrT0O80-xuWU4jKTZy_gMnOa5KxmfNhdXqQfFpSn9uGuxFql8sVTTPv2-VF7cJ_G4FSOPBF3482Aov-Ba0e9WF8y0TPDgkDTxChgHw2w_AWgEHmPrTp7D_U1rGrz03AdSDRcmsALCyg6EzZLosvw=s800" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Andy Warhol's painting captured Mandelli's trademark look" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkKu9k93W-49OHNH_5ERvCfnZ_l0hIg6Qvm9egKADrT0O80-xuWU4jKTZy_gMnOa5KxmfNhdXqQfFpSn9uGuxFql8sVTTPv2-VF7cJ_G4FSOPBF3482Aov-Ba0e9WF8y0TPDgkDTxChgHw2w_AWgEHmPrTp7D_U1rGrz03AdSDRcmsALCyg6EzZLosvw=w255-h255" title="Andy Warhol's painting captured Mandelli's trademark look" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy Warhol's painting captured<br />Mandelli's trademark look</td></tr></tbody></table>In 1964, Mandelli unveiled her first black-and-white collection at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the designs for which earned her a <i>Critica della Moda</i> award.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Although she lived in Milan after launching Krizia, Mandelli remained proud of her home town and often talked about it fondly in media interviews, promoting </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the city’s reputation as an artistic and cultural treasure chest, with its own natural beauty, set among hills, mountains, lakes and rolling countryside. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mandelli’s fashion house grew rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1971, Mandelli launched a style of shorts, which were cut very short and were possibly the first version of hot pants to appear. Krizia knitwear became instantly recognizable, featuring animals such as elephants, lions, tigers, leopards and giraffes in the designs.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">During the 1990s, Krizia grew into a multi-million-dollar business and Mandelli’s hairstyle and trademark red lipstick were once captured in a portrait by Andy Warhol.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mandelli also went on to establish a popular line of men’s wear, one of the first female fashion designers to do this successfully.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When Mariuccia Mandelli died at her home in Milan in December 2015 at the age of 90, she had been running Krizia, for the best part of 60 years, relinquishing control only a year earlier when it was sold to a Chinese corporation. In an obituary, the Guardian newspaper called her the Godmother of Italian fashion.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/" target="_blank">Home</a> <a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/p/main-sights_19.html" target="_blank">Main Sights</a> <a href="https://www.bestofbergamo.com/p/book-hotel-in-bergamo.html" target="_blank">Bergamo Hotels</a> </div></div>
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It is not known how he acquired his nickname of Il Moretto.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He studied painting under Floriano Ferramola, but is also believed to have trained with Vincenzo Foppa, a painter who was active in Brescia in the early years of the 16th century. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It is believed he may also have been an apprentice to Titian in Venice and it is known that he modelled his portrait painting on the Venetian style. Bonvicino is believed to have admired Raphael, although there is no evidence he ever travelled to Rome. He specialized in painting altarpieces in oils rather than in fresco.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDPem45gzderEjyx2mGnPC5nMs4i3PVc6Ft6_ScFBO7HHXGh9YHnZk7TfLaS_0dssZiSc2Tv5_r3uLJQjqWugFswvQET0Pgc_wcoiqMEIzEiqqrqXtQbGqtlIx8RuZc6bVy7yUOXOIxnWAb82wOy6l_3-BxOlPUWjTu92s-6f-7xjrsOFU50RHApBpag=s1048" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Il Moretto's Madonna and Child with Saints at the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea" border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDPem45gzderEjyx2mGnPC5nMs4i3PVc6Ft6_ScFBO7HHXGh9YHnZk7TfLaS_0dssZiSc2Tv5_r3uLJQjqWugFswvQET0Pgc_wcoiqMEIzEiqqrqXtQbGqtlIx8RuZc6bVy7yUOXOIxnWAb82wOy6l_3-BxOlPUWjTu92s-6f-7xjrsOFU50RHApBpag=w244-h320" title="Il Moretto's Madonna and Child with Saints at the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Il Moretto's <i>Madonna and Child Enthroned <br />with Saints</i> at the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea</td></tr></tbody></table>At the height of his career, Bonvicino was considered one of the most acclaimed painters working in Brescia. In 1521 he worked with Girolamo Romanino in the Duomo Vecchio of Brescia, executing a Last Supper, Elijah in the Desert and a Fall of Manna and he later worked with Lorenzo Lotto in the <b>Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore</b> in Bergamo.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Elsewhere in Bergamo, t</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">he <b>Chiesa di </b></span><b>Sant’Alessandro in Colonna </b>in Via Sant'Alessandro in the Città Bassa has a <i>Virgin adoring the Child</i> by Bonvicino, while there is a <i>Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints</i> in the <b>Chiesa di Sant'Andrea</b> in Via Porta Dipinta in the Città Alta. </div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bonvicino's paintings can be found in many other churches in Brescia, Milan and Verona and in the collections of the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Hermitage in St Petersburg, as well as galleries in Milan, Venice, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, Oxford, Washington and Budapest, and the <b>Accademia Carrara</b> in Bergamo.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bonvicino’s 1526 <i>Portrait of a Man,</i> which now hangs in the National Gallery, is said to be the earliest Italian full-length portrait. The setting for his subject, who is leaning on a classical column, was later to be emulated by Moroni.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Noted for his piety, Bonvicino prayed and fasted before embarking on any sacred work of art, such as painting the Virgin Mother. He spent most of his life in Brescia and belonged to two of the religious confraternities there. He died, aged about 56, in Brescia.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-11971678006503257482021-06-27T23:19:00.004+01:002021-06-27T23:25:31.943+01:00Matteo stars again for the Azzurri<div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Pessina goal puts Italy in quarter-finals</b></span></h3><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d2gPH83w0Y8/YNj1mhzjWQI/AAAAAAAAHBo/cDt5W8irqbMAggsCmzdXtENGZLKy2_epgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/pessina.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atalanta's Matteo Pessina scored Italy's crucial second goal in the 2-1 win over Austria" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d2gPH83w0Y8/YNj1mhzjWQI/AAAAAAAAHBo/cDt5W8irqbMAggsCmzdXtENGZLKy2_epgCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h180/pessina.jpg" title="Atalanta's Matteo Pessina scored Italy's crucial second goal in the 2-1 win over Austria" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atalanta's Matteo Pessina scored Italy's crucial<br />second goal in the 2-1 win over Austria</td></tr></tbody></table>Italy learned tonight that they will face Belgium in the quarter-finals of Euro 2020, the major European international football competition delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Atalanta fans will be adamant that their hero <b>Matteo Pessina</b> must keep his place in Roberto Mancini’s team after the midfielder with the Bergamo squad came off the bench to score what proved to be the winning goal in the <b>Azzurri’s </b>2-1 victory over Austria in London on Saturday night.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pessina was one of five substitutes used by Mancini as Italy struggled to get the better of Austria despite starting the round-of-16 match as strong favourites.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The scores were level at 0-0 after 90 minutes, so 30 minutes of extra time was played and the Azzurri proved to have the stamina and quality to prevail.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Another of the substitutes, Fiorentina’s <b>Federico Chiesa,</b> finally gave Italy the lead five minutes into extra time, before Messina coolly stroked home the second goal from close range to double the Azzurri advantage.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It was the 24-year-old player’s second goal of the tournament after scoring the only goal of Italy’s final group game, a victory over Wales.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sUUd1kJPUes/YNj3q6plq-I/AAAAAAAAHBw/qiH7XbKlDJMosYtLmTS31Kyl4ggJdda7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s931/Joakim_M%25C3%25A6hle_September_2019.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Joakim Maehle scored for Denmark against Wales" border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="698" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sUUd1kJPUes/YNj3q6plq-I/AAAAAAAAHBw/qiH7XbKlDJMosYtLmTS31Kyl4ggJdda7ACLcBGAsYHQ/w240-h320/Joakim_M%25C3%25A6hle_September_2019.jpg" title="Joakim Maehle scored for Denmark against Wales" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joakim Maehle scored for <br />Denmark against Wales</td></tr></tbody></table>And it proved to be vital too as Austria’s Sasa Kalajdzic pulled one back for the underdogs in the match at Wembley Stadium before Italy held on to their advantage.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kaladzic’s goal was the first to be conceded by Mancini’s team in 12 matches. They are now unbeaten in 31 matches, the longest such run in the history of the national team.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Italy meet Belgium on Friday at the Allianz Arena, the home of German club Bayern Munich, with a kick-off at 8pm UK time, 9pm in Italy.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Belgium beat defending champions Portugal 1-0 in Seville on Sunday to progress to the last eight and the clash with Italy will be one of the most eagerly-anticipated matches so far at Euro 2020.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One of Pessina’s Atalanta team-mates, wing-back <b>Joakim Maehle, </b>was among the goalscorers as Denmark beat Wales 4-0 on Saturday to book their place in the quarter-finals.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Danes will take on the Czech Republic, surprise winners against the Netherlands, next Saturday evening.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Monza-born Pessina is the first Atalanta player to start a match for the Azzurri in the final tournament of any of the European championships in which they have played, and the first representative of the Bergamo team to score for Italy in any major tournament.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-58455467289812392532021-06-21T11:28:00.000+01:002021-06-21T11:28:04.489+01:00Atalanta star is Italy’s hero<div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pessina goal sees the Azzurri top Euros group</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YBJOD-OPvo/YNBnvLfYvdI/AAAAAAAAHBI/gqWtG9HDlvsoOt6VmwD0NLCeft_gVY3bQCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/pessina%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Matteo Pessina has become a star of Bergamo's Atalanta team" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YBJOD-OPvo/YNBnvLfYvdI/AAAAAAAAHBI/gqWtG9HDlvsoOt6VmwD0NLCeft_gVY3bQCLcBGAsYHQ/w238-h320/pessina%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="Matteo Pessina has become a star of Bergamo's Atalanta team" width="238" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matteo Pessina has become a star<br />of Bergamo's Atalanta team</td></tr></tbody></table>Atalanta’s Matteo Pessina was Italy’s hero as the national team beat Wales in Rome yesterday to progress to the knock-out stage of the delayed Euro 2020 competition as winners of their group.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The 24-year-old midfielder scored the only goal of the match in the 39th minute, maintaining the <i>Azzurri’s</i> 100 per cent success record in Group A, in which they earlier beat Turkey and Switzerland. They have yet to concede a goal in the competition.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Monza-born player, who was added to <b>Roberto Mancini’s</b> squad only as a late replacement for the injured Stefano Sensi, became the youngest Italy player to score on his debut in a major tournament and made history in two other ways.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He is the first Atalanta player to start a match for the <i>Azzurri</i> in the final tournament of any of the European championships in which they have played and the first representative of the Bergamo team to score for Italy in any major tournament.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, it is 19 years since <i>La Dea</i> had a player selected to represent Italy in a major tournament, the last one being the attacking midfielder <b>Cristiano Doni,</b> who went to the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea as part of Giovanni Trapattoni’s squad and started two matches.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pessina and defender <b>Rafael Tolói,</b> who was also a starter against Wales, are only the sixth and seventh Atalanta players to be named in Italy squads for major tournaments in its history and only the third and fourth to actually wear the <i>Azzurri</i> shirt in action.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Both played key roles in helping La Dea finish third in Serie A in the season just ended. Pessina, who joined Atalanta from AC Milan in 2017 and spent two of his first two seasons with the <i>nerazzurri</i> out on loan, first with La Spezia and then Hellas Verona, was a regular in Gian Piero Gasperini’s team in 2020-21, scoring four goals. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y3hA8EgRwvk/YNBobq6OGkI/AAAAAAAAHBQ/A8yM_-n3fH8oYxk1oZPoVJFkP-FE01mpACLcBGAsYHQ/s658/gosens%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The German wing back Robin Gosens has become one of Atalanta's top players" border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y3hA8EgRwvk/YNBobq6OGkI/AAAAAAAAHBQ/A8yM_-n3fH8oYxk1oZPoVJFkP-FE01mpACLcBGAsYHQ/w306-h320/gosens%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="The German wing back Robin Gosens has become one of Atalanta's top players" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The German wing back Robin Gosens has<br />become one of Atalanta's top players</td></tr></tbody></table>Gasperini's team has a number of its stars play a prominent roles in the current Euros. <b>Robin Gosens</b>, the German-born wing back who has been with the Bergamo team since 2017 and has been one of Atalanta's best players over the last two seasons, scored for Germany in their 4-2 win over Portugal on Saturday, while striker <b>Aleksey Miranchuk</b> scored Russia's only goal in their win over Finland last week.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Other members of Gasperini's multi-national squad to see action in the Euros so far are Joakim Maehle (Denmark), Remo Freuler (Switzerland), Marten de Roon (Netherlands), Ruslan Malinovsky (Ukraine) and Mario Pasalic (Croatia).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After playing for his country at Under-20 and Under-21 level, Pessina made his debut for Italy’s senior team on November 11, 2020, featuring as a substitute in a 4–0 friendly win against Estonia in Florence. He scored his first goals for the Azzurri in a home friendly against San Marino in May, 2021, netting twice in a 7-0 victory.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As winners of Group A, Italy will play the runners-up in Group C in the round of 16 on Saturday, which looks likely to be either Ukraine or Austria, who were scheduled to meet each other in Bucharest this afternoon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-27754884234542900792021-06-08T20:02:00.002+01:002021-06-08T20:02:50.058+01:00Atalanta duo make history<div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tolói and Pessina in Roberto Mancini's squad for Euros</span></h3><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Atalanta players Rafael Tolói and Matteo Pessina have made history with their selection for the Italy squad for the delayed 2020 European football championships, which opens on Friday with the <i>Azzurri</i> facing Turkey at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Defender Tolói and midfielder Pessina are the first players from the Bergamo team to be named as part of the Italy squad in any of the 10 European championships in which the national team has participated since the tournament was launched in 1968.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YVkltDM1Ciw/YL-5MSHumzI/AAAAAAAAG_c/eD4CFUc6FrQ4PHvYnzmLp03qOfxvr1UJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s199/toloi-rafael-800x504%2B%25283%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="178" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YVkltDM1Ciw/YL-5MSHumzI/AAAAAAAAG_c/eD4CFUc6FrQ4PHvYnzmLp03qOfxvr1UJwCLcBGAsYHQ/w286-h320/toloi-rafael-800x504%2B%25283%2529.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brazilian-born Rafael Tolói qualified<br />to play for Italy earlier this year</td></tr></tbody></table>Their selection is a reflection of Atalanta’s improved standing within the Italian game, in which they have become a prominent club under the coaching of<b> Gian Piero Gasperini.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With Gasperini in charge, they have finished third in Serie A for three seasons in a row as well as reaching the Coppa Italia final twice.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Tolói,</b> who can play as a centre back or a full back and is La Dea’s club captain, was born in Brazil and represented his country of birth at Under-20 level.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But he has played in Italy since 2014 and qualified for an Italian passport earlier this year after more than five years of residency, after which <i>Azzurri</i> manager Roberto Mancini called him up in March, giving him his debut aged 30 in the World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania on March 31.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He made a total of 42 appearances for Atalanta in the season just ended, scoring two goals.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">La Dea signed him from Sao Paulo of Brazil in 2015 for €3.5 million in 2015 after he spent half of the previous season on loan with Roma.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Midfielder <b>Pessina,</b> aged 24 and born just 40km (25 miles) from Bergamo in Monza, north of Milan, joined Atalanta from AC Milan in 2017 and spent two of his first two seasons with the <i>nerazzurri </i>out on loan, first with La Spezia and then Hellas Verona.</span></div><br />
<div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nxu4-Rjuf6w/YL-6jfLKTQI/AAAAAAAAG_s/ktygpjvBT1MBcqTx0p0rs7IeO8E0rU2ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s242/maxresdefault%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Matteo Pessina replaces the injured Stefano Sensi" border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="206" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nxu4-Rjuf6w/YL-6jfLKTQI/AAAAAAAAG_s/ktygpjvBT1MBcqTx0p0rs7IeO8E0rU2ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/maxresdefault%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="Matteo Pessina replaces the injured Stefano Sensi" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matteo Pessina replaces the<br />injured Stefano Sensi </td></tr></tbody></table><div>He became a regular for La Dea in the season just ended, making 39 appearances.</div></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After playing for his country at Under-20 and Under-21 level, Pessina made his debut for Italy’s senior team on November 11, 2020, featuring as a substitute in a 4–0 friendly win against Estonia in Florence. He scored his first goals for the <i>Azzurri</i> in a home friendly against San Marino in May, 2021, netting twice in a 7-0 victory. </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Named in Mancini’s preliminary squad for Euro 2020, he was initially left out of the final 26-man selection but reinstated after an injury to Inter Milan’s Stefano Sensi.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The tournament, postponed last summer because of Covid-19, is being played in 11 different countries in a major change from the usual format, which traditionally has seen all the games staged in one or sometimes two host nations.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Drawn with Switzerland and Wales as well as Turkey, Italy will play all their group matches in Rome, which will also host one of the quarter-finals.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Both semi-finals and the July 11 final are being staged at Wembley Stadium in London.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bookmakers in England think that France and England are the favourites to win the competition, with Italy tipped to reach the quarter-finals, perhaps the semi-finals.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-63207804341506596602021-05-13T12:23:00.000+01:002021-05-13T12:23:03.485+01:00Atalanta close in on second place in Serie A table<div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZzm1lYx2rg/YJ0JR8b8WiI/AAAAAAAAG58/qEfgo1GgIMM8DRqw72Eze8AfQxkUMR8wACLcBGAsYHQ/s498/Gian-piero-gasperini-2019.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atalanta's fortunes have been transformed under Gasperini" border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="354" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZzm1lYx2rg/YJ0JR8b8WiI/AAAAAAAAG58/qEfgo1GgIMM8DRqw72Eze8AfQxkUMR8wACLcBGAsYHQ/w227-h320/Gian-piero-gasperini-2019.png" title="Atalanta's fortunes have been transformed under Gasperini" width="227" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atalanta's fortunes have been<br />transformed under Gasperini</td></tr></tbody></table>Bergamo’s high-flying football team, Atalanta, need to pick up just one more win from their last two Serie A matches to qualify for the Champions League for the third consecutive season.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Atalanta - whose nicknames include <i>i Nerazzurri</i> (the black and blues) and <i>La Dea </i>(the Goddess) - consolidated their hold on second place in the table with a 2-0 win over struggling Benevento at the <b>Gewiss Stadium</b> on Wednesday.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Their goals came from top scorer Luis Muriel and Mario Pasalic.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Their final two matches are away to Genoa on Saturday before they take on AC Milan in the final game of the season, again at the Gewiss Stadium in the Città Bassa. The title is already won by Inter-Milan.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In the middle, they have the small matter of the <b>Coppa Italia final </b>against Juventus to think about after another exceptional season. Were they to finish second, it would be the highest final place in the club's history.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Playing an exciting style of attacking football, Atalanta have been the surprise package of the last few seasons in Italian football.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the 1970s, Atalanta have been promoted from Serie B nine times and relegated from Serie A nine times. They rarely finished in the top half of the Serie A table but since the appointment of former Genoa coach <b>Gian Piero Gasperini </b>to look after the team in 2016 <i>La Dea </i>have enjoyed consistent improvement.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ro-Hh8ypOP0/YJ0JmS9W9YI/AAAAAAAAG6I/EpMLW3sp6TYdECbOxXIBVdJyHX3nRE89QCLcBGAsYHQ/s558/maxresdefault%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atalanta's top striker, the Colombian Luis Muriel" border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="466" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ro-Hh8ypOP0/YJ0JmS9W9YI/AAAAAAAAG6I/EpMLW3sp6TYdECbOxXIBVdJyHX3nRE89QCLcBGAsYHQ/w220-h264/maxresdefault%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="Atalanta's top striker, the Colombian Luis Muriel" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atalanta's top striker, the<br />Colombian Luis Muriel</td></tr></tbody></table>They have finished in the top four of Serie A in three of the last four seasons, qualifying for the Champions League for the last two years by finishing in third place.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They qualified for the knock-out phase of the European competition each time, reaching the quarter-finals two years ago.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They also reached the final of the Coppa Italia for the first time in 23 years in 2019, losing to Lazio.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet it remains the case that the 1962-63 Coppa Italia, when the defeated Torino in the final, is the only major trophy in the club’s 114-year history.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It something Gasperini had in mind after the win over Benevento when he told reporters his team “have done nothing yet”, warning that they should take nothing for granted. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“We are responsible for our own destiny. We must keep our feet grounded because we’ve done nothing yet," he said.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WJLomaj7JKs/YJ0J4ggr6hI/AAAAAAAAG6Q/jK8HwVVnYd4vntSGZ6BhwNJEDI8VpbXzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1249/800px-AtalantaBC.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atalanta is named after a Greek goddess" border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="800" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WJLomaj7JKs/YJ0J4ggr6hI/AAAAAAAAG6Q/jK8HwVVnYd4vntSGZ6BhwNJEDI8VpbXzgCLcBGAsYHQ/w182-h284/800px-AtalantaBC.svg.png" title="Atalanta is named after a Greek goddess" width="182" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atalanta is named after <br />a Greek goddess</td></tr></tbody></table>“We have two league games and the Coppa Italia final. We have played many matches, but the strength of this team is to take one step at a time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“We are fighting, we are in the race with Milan, Napoli and Juventus for a top-four finish in Serie A, and only one won’t reach the target. Anything can still happen.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Like most teams at the top level in Italy, the Atalanta team is a multi-national group. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Their defence regularly includes two Argentinians, a German and an Albanian.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The midfield stars are a Swiss, a Dutchman and a Ukrainian, while their two best strikers, Muriel and Duván Zapata, are both Colombian internationals.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The home-grown players who have featured most often this season are goalkeepers Pierluigi Gollini and Marco Sportiello, defender Rafael Tolói - Brazilian-born but an Italian national - and midfielder Matteo Pessina.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kqbBqzjgCS8/YJ0KRTCTeoI/AAAAAAAAG6Y/lvxgBnVu7DE8hj9oNSz_4Z_1zFBFJhUdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1181/gewiss%2Bstadium%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atalanta play their home matches at the expanded Gewiss Stadium in the Città Bassa" border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1181" height="157" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kqbBqzjgCS8/YJ0KRTCTeoI/AAAAAAAAG6Y/lvxgBnVu7DE8hj9oNSz_4Z_1zFBFJhUdwCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h157/gewiss%2Bstadium%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="Atalanta play their home matches at the expanded Gewiss Stadium in the Città Bassa" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atalanta play their home matches at the<br />expanded Gewiss Stadium in the Città Bassa</td></tr></tbody></table>Atalanta’s brand of free-flowing attack-minded football has thrilled audiences and made them Italy’s highest goalscorers for each of the last three seasons. Last year, they totalled 98 in Serie A, the highest tally by any team for more than 70 years.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This season they have found the net 86 times in Serie A, of which Muriel has 22, level with Inter-Milan’s <b>Romelu Lukaku </b>and behind only <b>Cristiano Ronaldo</b> of Juventus (28) among the leading individual goalscorers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Atalanta’s nickname of <i>La Dea</i> stems from the club’s creation in 1907 by students of the <b>Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi,</b> the important high school in Bergamo, who named the club after the female athlete of the same name in Greek mythology, who had the status of goddess in her own region.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The club’s badge contains the profile of a woman with flowing hair, representing the mythological Atalanta.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-43605522632805404162021-04-07T21:16:00.003+01:002021-04-08T15:29:25.191+01:00Bergamo curiosities, clocks and curfews<div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Look out for some of the quaint architectural features of the Città Alta</b></span></h3><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rtlSkD5jkU4/YG4Pf-Izj6I/AAAAAAAAGzs/fl1YbKVxI4wZJ0U5wGQx2VvR8fRcb1eVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1331/1317.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A set of stone gargoyles on the wall above Palazzo della Ragione's covered staircase" border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="1331" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rtlSkD5jkU4/YG4Pf-Izj6I/AAAAAAAAGzs/fl1YbKVxI4wZJ0U5wGQx2VvR8fRcb1eVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w263-h258/1317.JPG" title="A set of stone gargoyles on the wall above Palazzo della Ragione's covered staircase" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A set of stone gargoyles on the wall above<br />Palazzo della Ragione's covered staircase</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b></b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bergamo’s upper town, the Città Alta, is full of medieval buildings, towers and houses and many of them have unusual, quaint architectural features, so it’s worth taking your time when you are walking round to see what you can spot.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The faded frescoes you will see are indications that the outsides of buildings would have been much more colourful hundreds of years ago than they are today. But it is worth looking at the frescoes to try to see what the artist painted. If there is a portion missing, let your imagination fill it in so that you can understand what it would have been like in its heyday. Good places for fresco spotting are <b>Piazza Mascheroni, Piazza Cittadella</b> and <b>Via Porta Dipinta.</b></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There are grotesque stone carvings on many of the medieval buildings in the Città Alta that would have meant something to the stone mason responsible for adding them hundreds of years ago.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fZDh8eH90t0/YG4Rc0sPGBI/AAAAAAAAGz0/5Qu1NCg0Il0DYAnz3Zjh7YDSoUcnrjAiACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0806.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The bells in the Campanone still chime 100 times at 10pm each night" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fZDh8eH90t0/YG4Rc0sPGBI/AAAAAAAAGz0/5Qu1NCg0Il0DYAnz3Zjh7YDSoUcnrjAiACLcBGAsYHQ/w195-h259/IMG_0806.JPG" title="The bells in the Campanone still chime 100 times at 10pm each night" width="195" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bells in the Campanone still<br />chime at 10pm each night<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Of particular interest are the set of stone gargoyles on the wall to your right as you start to climb the 16th century covered staircase that leads to the first floor of <b>Palazzo della Ragione,</b> known as the Hall of the Capriate. These were taken centuries ago from a funeral monument in the former convent of San Francesco.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The paved area at ground floor level can be accessed from both sides through the porticos. It is usually empty these days but in the past has been used as an open civil and criminal court, where the prisoner had to sit on a white stone seat, and also as a place for people to watch puppet shows. These were popular with adults as well as children because they enjoyed the clever lampooning of local dignitaries and political situations of the day by the puppeteers.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Inside the porticos under Palazzo della Ragione, if you look at the paving, you will see white marble slabs among the grey with engraved ellipses. This is a <b>sundial,</b> or solar clock, designed by Giovanni Albrici in 1798, which points north and indicates the passage of the sun through the meridian, at 12 noon.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lBQGisgwH48/YG4eYgEkU_I/AAAAAAAAGz8/GyuFRz5bNxApofy120SOn1wMcDZAxy09gCLcBGAsYHQ/s450/meridiana-monumentale%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Meridiana Monumentale sundial is a particular curiosity" border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="338" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lBQGisgwH48/YG4eYgEkU_I/AAAAAAAAGz8/GyuFRz5bNxApofy120SOn1wMcDZAxy09gCLcBGAsYHQ/w240-h320/meridiana-monumentale%2B%25281%2529.jpg" title="The Meridiana Monumentale sundial is a particular curiosity" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Meridiana Monumentale sundial<br />is a particular curiosity</td></tr></tbody></table>Like most things in Bergamo it has been well preserved. In 1982 restoration work was carried out on it and the mechanism was modified to enable the date to be shown as well.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When the sun shines, as it often does in Bergamo, it passes through a small hole in a metal plate attached to one of the arches and as it shines into the porticoes you can see what time it is.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The enormous <b>Campanone</b> (big bell tower) on the other side of the piazza also helps visitors to Bergamo to tell the time. It comes into its own at 10pm every evening when it chimes more than 100 times to remind people still outside the Città Alta of the curfew and give them chance to get back through one of the gates, or otherwise be locked out for the night.</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">They don’t lock the gates of the Città Alta any more, but have maintained the tradition of sounding more than 100 chimes at 10pm.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7KSqyCheHX4/YDvl8ahHmII/AAAAAAAAGt0/TlEU1-_ocPQoRIjaVLberv4N76el_oCGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/194.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Trattoria Tre Torri is housed inside a medieval tower" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7KSqyCheHX4/YDvl8ahHmII/AAAAAAAAGt0/TlEU1-_ocPQoRIjaVLberv4N76el_oCGgCLcBGAsYHQ/w240-h320/194.JPG" title="Trattoria Tre Torri is housed inside a medieval tower" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trattoria Tre Torri is housed inside<br />a medieval tower</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: arial;"><b>Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to live in a medieval
tower in Bergamo’s Città Alta?</b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, you can easily sample the medieval atmosphere for just a couple of
hours by having lunch or dinner at <b>Trattoria Tre Torri</b> in Piazza Mercato del
Fieno in the Città Alta. The square is just off Via Gombito to the right,
almost opposite the enormous Torre Gombito. It was once the site of the Città
Alta’s hay market and the piazza is still bordered by three medieval tower
houses, which have been cut down from their former heights but are still the
original structures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the houses, which used to be owned by Bergamo’s rich and powerful
Suardi family, has a pretty little balcony under a double arched mullioned
window.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another tower on the square, opposite the three adjoining towers, houses the Trattoria Tre Torri, which serves good quality
local food at reasonable prices. There are some tables for two but you can also
sit at large wooden tables with benches if you are a larger party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The original stone has been left exposed on the inside walls. One night
when I went there for dinner with my family it was raining heavily outside and
we were amused to notice the rain running down the walls inside, but we still
felt very warm and cosy and enjoyed the meal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TFKllzO8gzc/YDvmzgrC9zI/AAAAAAAAGt8/ZVpvf4Xw0aw54Gn8gtgmVz3VFNZAceJGACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/160.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The three adjoining towers on the square were once much taller" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TFKllzO8gzc/YDvmzgrC9zI/AAAAAAAAGt8/ZVpvf4Xw0aw54Gn8gtgmVz3VFNZAceJGACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h240/160.JPG" title="The three adjoining towers on the square were once much taller" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The three adjoining towers on the square<br />were once much taller</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The staff are very friendly and the menu has many traditional Bergamo
dishes to try, such as <i>casoncelli alla bergamasca - </i>a kind of ravioli<i> - </i><i>stinco al forno</i> - pork shank - and dishes
with the local type of polenta. They stock local Bergamo wines and also serve a
good house wine.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There is all the atmosphere you would expect to experience when dining
in a genuine medieval tower and there are also tables outside under an awning
for dining during the summer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Piazza Mercato del Fieno is where the Città Alta’s post office is
located and it also has some shops and bars. It is a good place to stand to
take a photograph of the Gombito tower, which looms high above Via Gombito. The
square is on higher ground and is sufficiently far away to enable you to
capture a shot that includes the top of the tower.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Trattoria Tre Torri</b> is located at Piazzo Mercato del Fieno 7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Joz9haJ0Oy8/YDvnumog_mI/AAAAAAAAGuM/LQdSFC0iU4MZsmWq5Lwd_9Lcr7omeO3vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/149.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The original medieval brickwork is a feature of Trattoria Tre Torri's cosy interior" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="397" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Joz9haJ0Oy8/YDvnumog_mI/AAAAAAAAGuM/LQdSFC0iU4MZsmWq5Lwd_9Lcr7omeO3vgCLcBGAsYHQ/w529-h397/149.JPG" title="The original medieval brickwork is a feature of Trattoria Tre Torri's cosy interior" width="529" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original medieval brickwork is a feature of Trattoria Tre Torri's cosy interior</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238982131431371239.post-10648381087519028292021-02-10T21:05:00.003+00:002021-02-10T23:20:46.389+00:00Giacomo Quarenghi – Bergamo architect<h3 style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Neoclassicist
was famous for his work in Russia</span></h3><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7cXZrlhYHQ/YCRnqaoHMcI/AAAAAAAAGo4/m5U3hMaRBCcEzIp_CUt4gCUoJ3jzHl5DgCLcBGAsYHQ/s238/Quarenghi_G%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Giacomo Quarenghi was born in a village not far from Lecco" border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="175" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7cXZrlhYHQ/YCRnqaoHMcI/AAAAAAAAGo4/m5U3hMaRBCcEzIp_CUt4gCUoJ3jzHl5DgCLcBGAsYHQ/w235-h320/Quarenghi_G%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="Giacomo Quarenghi was born in a village not far from Lecco" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giacomo Quarenghi was born<br />in a village not far from Lecco</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The
architect Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi, known for his work in Italy and
in St Petersburg in Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was born
in 1744 in Rota d’Imagna, a village in Lombardy about 25km (16 miles) northwest
of Bergamo, near the lakeside town of Lecco.</b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quarenghi’s
simple, yet imposing, Neoclassical buildings, which often featured an elegant
central portico with pillars and pediment, were inspired by the work of the
architect, <b>Andrea Palladio.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As a
young man, Quarenghi was allowed to study painting in Bergamo despite his
parents’ hopes that he would follow a career in law or the church. He travelled
widely through Italy, staying in Vicenza, Verona, Mantua and Venice in the
north and venturing south to make drawings of the Greek temples at Paestum
before arriving in Rome in 1763. His first focus was on painting, but he was
later introduced to architecture by Paolo Posi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His
biggest inspiration came from reading Andrea Palladio's Quattro Libri
d'archittetura, after which he moved away from painting to concentrate on the
design of buildings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He
returned to Venice to study Palladio and came to meet a British peer who was
passing through Venice on the Grand Tour. It was through him that Quarenghi was
commissioned to work in England, where his projects included an altar for the
private Roman Catholic chapel of Henry Arundell at New Wardour Castle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His first
major commission in Italy (1771–7) was for the internal reconstruction of the
monastery of Santa Scholastica at Subiaco, just outside Rome, where he was also
asked to design a decor for a Music Room in the Campidoglio. He drew up designs
for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII, but these were later executed by Antonio
Canova.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tUhkMjqOqok/YCRoNPrqXpI/AAAAAAAAGpA/76i6Be1zjyIH07ntgMooO1PAjNXWpG0eACLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/1024px-Russian_Academy_of_Sciences_SPB.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Russian Academy of Science is based at one of Quarenghi's St Petersburg palaces" border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1024" height="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tUhkMjqOqok/YCRoNPrqXpI/AAAAAAAAGpA/76i6Be1zjyIH07ntgMooO1PAjNXWpG0eACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h212/1024px-Russian_Academy_of_Sciences_SPB.jpg" title="The Russian Academy of Science is based at one of Quarenghi's St Petersburg palaces" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Russian Academy of Science is based at<br />one of Quarenghi's St Petersburg palaces</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1779
he was selected by the Prussian-born Count Rieffenstein, who had been
commissioned by Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, to send her
two Italian architects. Quarenghi, then 35, was finding it hard to
generate enough work amid fierce competition in Italy, so he accepted the offer
without hesitation, leaving immediately for St Petersburg, taking his pregnant
wife with him.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quarenghi's
first important commission in Russia was the magnificent English Palace in
Peterhof, just outside St Petersburg, which sadly was blown up by the Germans
during World War II and was later demolished by the Soviet government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1783
Quarenghi settled with his family in Tsarskoe Selo, the town which was the
former seat of the Russian royal family, where he would supervise the
construction of the Alexander Palace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Soon
afterwards, he was appointed Catherine II's court architect and went on to
produce a large number of designs for the Empress and her successors and
members of her court, as well as interior decorations and elaborate ornate
gardens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His
extensive work in St Petersburg between 1782 and 1816 included the Hermitage
Theatre, one of the first buildings in Russia in the Palladian style, the
Bourse and the State Bank, St. George’s Hall in the Winter Palace (1786–95),
several bridges on the Neva, and a number of academic structures including the
Academy of Sciences, on the University Embankment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlWlTXQogyI/YCRop9z6DLI/AAAAAAAAGpM/lBoO1O9XSpcD73p1M-1ppZSRvl3-ksk1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1024px-Rota_d%2527Imagna__dopo__-_panoramio.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rota d'Imagna is a beautiful village in the Lombardy countryside 25km from Bergamo" border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="320" height="198" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlWlTXQogyI/YCRop9z6DLI/AAAAAAAAGpM/lBoO1O9XSpcD73p1M-1ppZSRvl3-ksk1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h198/1024px-Rota_d%2527Imagna__dopo__-_panoramio.jpg" title="Rota d'Imagna is a beautiful village in the Lombardy countryside 25km from Bergamo" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rota d'Imagna is a beautiful village in the<br />Lombardy countryside 25km from Bergamo</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">Quarenghi’s
design for the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg was heavily influenced by his
visit to the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza as he toured Italy as a young man. The
theatre, constructed between 1580 and 1585, was the final design by Andrea
Palladio and was not completed until after his death. The trompe-l'œil onstage
scenery, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, gives the appearance of long streets
receding to a distant horizon. The theatre is one of only three Renaissance
theatres still in existence.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His work
outside St Petersburg included a cathedral in Ukraine and among his buildings
in Moscow were a theatre hall in the Ostankino Palace. He was also responsible
for the reconstruction of some buildings around Red Square in Moscow in
neo-Palladian style.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He
obviously never forgot his northern Italian roots because he showed his appreciation for
Catherine II’s patronage by giving her a case of Bergamo’s prestigious wine,
Moscato di Scanzo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
grapes for this rich, ruby red wine are grown in vineyards in a small, area of
countryside just outside Bergamo, land that is about 31 hectares wide only.
This is the only territory where the grapes can be grown for Moscato di Scanzo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A wine
that has earned the title Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita
(DOCG), the highest grade given to a wine in Italy, Moscato di Scanzo is made
from grapes harvested solely from the fields around Scanzorosciate, a town
about six kilometres (four miles) to the northeast of Bergamo in the foothills
of the southern Alps.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tuw9b-CaiLk/YCRp2ScXKaI/AAAAAAAAGpc/g9WNxIe_k2Y8h4rNrUK2viz7yoVUghgEACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Biblioteca%2BCivica.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Biblioteca Angelo Mai in Bergamo has a collection of Quarenghi's designs" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tuw9b-CaiLk/YCRp2ScXKaI/AAAAAAAAGpc/g9WNxIe_k2Y8h4rNrUK2viz7yoVUghgEACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h240/Biblioteca%2BCivica.JPG" title="The Biblioteca Angelo Mai in Bergamo has a collection of Quarenghi's designs" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Biblioteca Angelo Mai in Bergamo has<br />a collection of Quarenghi's designs</td></tr></tbody></table>But Quarenghi
was less popular with Catherine II’s son and successor, the Emperor Paul,
although he enjoyed a resurgence of popularity under Alexander I. When the
famous architect returned to Italy from time to time he always received an
enthusiastic welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quarenghi
retired in 1808 but remained in Russia, even though most of his 13 children by
his two wives chose to return to Italy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was granted Russian nobility and the Order of St. Vladimir of the First Degree
in 1814. He died in Saint Petersburg at the age of 72.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rota
d’Imagna, Quarenghi’s birthplace, is situated in the Imagna Valley, a popular
tourist spot because of its largely unspoilt landscape and spectacular mountain
views, with many visitors attracted to trekking, mountain walks and horse
riding. In the village itself, the Church of Rota Fuori, dedicated to San Siro,
which was built in 1496 and restructured in 1765, has art works of significance
by Gaetano Peverada, Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli and Carlo Ceresa.
Quarenghi’s home was Ca’ Piatone, a palace built in the 17th century.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bergamo
remembered him by naming a street Via Giacomo Quarenghi in the Citta Bassa.
Also, in 2017 the city marked the 200th anniversary of his death with a
programme of events to honour him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In Piazza
Vecchia in the Città Alta, the library, La Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, has a
collection of 750 architectural designs by Giacomo Quarenghi. These are
available to the public on a DVD with texts in Italian or in English.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>
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