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Florestano Vancini : a memoir Hit by a thunderbolt that determined a career and style of life. “In my day, it made a difference whether you were born and raised inside or outside the walls. Ferrara seemed to be a fortified place compared to that limitless countryside, poor and hard-working, and my father was only the Boara postman….” Florestano Vancini, who died on 18 September 2008 last, was physically born inside the walls, on 24 August 1926 in the hospital. However he was raised in Boara, the first village on the road to Copparo, and not “inside” the walled city.
Boldini in Paris The relationship between Boldini and French Impressionism will be explored in this great exhibition. Boldini painted a fascinating picture called Cantante mondana [“Society singer”] in the mid-1880s. It shows a snapshot of the Paris of the late nineteen-hundreds - the life, the cafés and the music halls that the artist patronised along with his friends and fellow-painters like Degas - and as such lay outside the area for which he was renowned, namely portrait painting.
It's all in the blood Impromptu thoughts of a "Dolomite-Po Valley man" My mother was tall and slim, with a consciously understated beauty; on the contrary, my athletic father was well aware of his good looks, tanned by the Cortina sun. She was from a good Ferrara family, had a diploma from the music conservatory and was anything but sporty; he was a ski and ice-hockey champion and mountain climber, from a modest family who were photography pioneers in this remote corner of Italy.
Story of a insolvent bank Luigi Franceschini and the "Piccolo Credito" bank, as remembered by his son. This is a nice “vintage” photograph taken at the San Girolamo Piazza eighty years ago.  It is a  souvenir photo with a certain historical interest: the  three people on  the right were very important characters in the story of  the insolvency of a Ferrara  bank, the  “ Piccolo   Credito ” : my  father,  the lawyer   Luigi   Franceschini,  who  was  the  receiver  appointed  by   the  Court   of   Ferrara ;   to  his  right,
Mystery and blades of grass in Filippo De Pisis The re-emergence of the herbarium collected by the Ferrara painter as a young man. The artistic sensibility of many leading cultural figures was cultivated by collecting grasses, herbs and flowers stalks, to then smoothen them out and press them between sheets of blotting paper:Obviously the great naturalists were enthusiasts, but world-famous thinkers also shared this hobby (Rousseau,Goethe,von Chamisso and Hesse), as well as poets,

Redazione e crediti

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Ferrara - Voci di una città

Rivista semestrale di cultura, informazione e attualità

Anno 16, numero 30 - Giugno 2009

Registrata presso il Tribunale di Ferrara il 9 novembre 1994 con il numero 13/94. ISSN 1128-3572

Edizione fuori commercio, riservata ai soci e agli amici della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara

 

COMITATO EDITORIALE

Francesca Bargellesi, Vittorio Emiliani, Giorgio Franceschini, Roberto Pazzi, Paolo Ravenna, Leopoldo Santini, Gaetano Tumiati, Gianni Venturi

 

DIRETTORE RESPOSABILE

Alfredo Santini

 

COORDINAMENTO E CURA EDITORIALE

Monica Bracardi

 

PROGETTO E REALIZZAZIONE

Paolo Canton

 

DESIGN

Derek Bacchus

 

SEGRETERIA DI REDAZIONE

Valentina Lapierre

 

EDITORE

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara

 

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In copertina :

Giovanni Boldini, La cantante mondana,

Archivio Fondazione Carife

 

CREDITI FOTOGRAFICI

Archivio famiglia Franceschini: pp. 26; 29; 30.

Archivio Paolo Micalizzi: pp. 8, 10,11,12,13.

Biblioteca-Archivio Africana: pp. 69; 71; 72; 73; 74.

Ferrara Arte: pp. 14; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21.

Gian Pietro Testa: pp. 65; 66.

Stefano Zardini: pp. 22; 24; 25.

Archivio Leopoldo Santini: p. 56.

Archivio Claudio Scaranari: pp. 58-62.

Archivio Erbario del Museo Botanico, Università di Padova: pp. 32, 33, 34, 36.

Dal volume Collage/Collages: dal Cubismo al New Dada, GAM di Torino (2007): p. 35.

Dal volume La collezione di Roberto Longhi: dal Duecento a Caravaggio a Moranti, Fondazione Ferrero (2007): p. 37.

Archivio Fondazione Carife: pp. 38, 40, 41, 41, 81, 82.

Fabio Piva: pp. 4, 46, 47, 48.

Archivio Comune di Copparo: pp. 50, 51 52.

Archivio Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea (foto Eliot di Enrico Paltrinieri): p. 55.

Archivio di Stato di Modena: pp. 76, 77.

Dal volume Gli Este a Ferrara. Il Camerino d’Alabastro. Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all’antica (2004): p. 78.

Archivio Unife: pp. 79, i, iii, v, vii, viii, xi, xvi.

 

ERRATA CORRIGE

Si precisa che nel numero 29 della presente rivista la foto di copertina è di Giulianelli; Massimo Baraldi ha realizzato le immagini per l’Archivio Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara; Marco Caselli Nirmal è autore delle foto di “Ferrara Musica”. L’editore è a disposizione per evenutali omissioni o incertezze riguardanti li immagini pubblicate.