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The roaring twenties Paris, capital of the arts During the 1920's Paris became both the stage and the symbol of the desire for renewal, exemplifying the feeling of liberation that was widespread at the end of World War I. Already an international capital of art and culture, the City of Light was a fashionable and cosmopolitan city. A mythical place for artists who flocked there from all over the world, attracted by its liberal customs, the intellectual ferment, theatres, cafes and art galleries, to give free expression to their creativity,
The MEIS National Museum of Italian Jewry and the Holocaust Since 2009, the Ministry for Heritage and Cultural Activities, the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage, the City of Ferrara and MEIS Foundation have been working towards the realization of the meis, Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (the National Museum of Italian Jewry and the Holocaust). Established by Act of Parliament No. 296 in 2006, in order to bear witness to the constant and widespread presence of the Jewish community on Italian territory,
Adventure in the “marshes” Yesterday and today in the Po Delta Park At the beginning we were clearly thrilled and amused, but this gradually changed to silence and then, towards the end of the adventure, we began to be afraid. We were classmates, just turned eight years old, and on that day we were on a trip to Mesola with my mother. A few days after the end of the school year in early June, she said: «I have a car to take me to paint in the Delta. Come along and bring a friend, if you want.
A reading and comment Truth and Memory in the last work of Aron Leoni Aron Leoni (1932-2010), son of Leone Leoni, chief rabbi of Ferrara and Venice, and Gemma Ravenna Leoni, inherited his passion for Jewish culture from his parents. He had a degree in agronomy and became director of the "Vita Mayer Corporation", also representing the Italian paper industry at the European Parliament in Brussels. On his retirement he totally dedicated himself to the study of the history and culture of the Sephardic diaspora,
Franco patruno: writing art, living art The Foundation publishes an anthology of his writings for «L'Osservatore Romano» Four years after the death of the author, Equivalenze, o dello scrivere l'arte. Scritti per «L'Osservatore Romano» (Equivalences, or writing on art. Articles for «L'Osservatore Romano») a collection of work by Father Franco Patruno has been published. Edited by Massimo Marchetti, the anthology – which covers ten years of his contributions to «L'Osservatore»

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Rivista semestrale di cultura, informazione e attualità Anno 17, numero 34 - Giugno 2011 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
Giorgio Franceschini, Roberto Pazzi, Paolo Ravenna, Leopoldo Santini, Gaetano Tumiati, Gianni Venturi, Francesca Zanardi Bargellesi

Direttore responsabile
Alfredo Santini

Coordinamento e cura editoriale
Monica Bracardi

Impaginazione e realizzazione
le Immagini - Ferrara

Progetto
Derek Bacchus

Segreteria di redazione
Valentina Lapierre

Revisione bozze
Angela Ghinato

Editore
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara
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Palazzo Muzzarelli Crema Via Cairoli, 13 - 44121 Ferrara tel. 0532/205091 - fax 0532/210362

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SATE - via Goretti, 88 - Ferrara

Un casone di valle nel Parco del Delta del Po, Fototeca Parco Delta del Po, Comacchio

Crediti Fotografici

Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet: p. 8
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection: p. 10
Collezione privata, © Succession Picasso, by SIAE 2011: p. 11
Stoccolma, Dansmuseet, Musée Rolf de Maré, © by sIAe 2011: p. 12
Washington, Hirshhorn Museum, dono della Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972, © by sIAe 2011: p. 12
Milano, collezione privata, © Gala-Salvador Dalì Foundation, by sIAe 2011: p. 13
Dal catalogo della mostra meis. Architetture per un museo, a cura di Carla Di Francesco, Ferrara, 2011: pp. 14, 16, 17
Fototeca Parco del Delta del Po: pp. 18, 20-23
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, Fondo Cartografico Crispi, serie XVI, tavola 67: p. 24
Dal volume La Nazione ebraica spagnola e portoghese di Ferrara, di Aron di Leone Leoni, Firenze, 2011: pp. 26, 27
Dal catalogo della mostra Franco Patruno: percorsi, Ferrara, 2001: pp. 30, 32
Fototeca Comune di Tresigallo: p. 34
Foto "le Immagini", Ferrara: pp. 36-39, 46, 48, 49, 58-61, 72
Foto Marco Caselli Nirmal: pp- 30-32 Foto Nazario Spadoni: p. 61
Archivio Carlo Bassi: pp. 40, 43-45
Archivio Centro Operativo Ferrara, Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici per le province di Ravenna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini: pp. 50, 54, 55
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara, lastre fondo "Vecchi e Graziani": pp. 52, 53
Fototeca Musei Civici d'Arte Antica, Ferrara: p. 55 Archivio Provincia di Ferrara: pp. 58-61
Centro di Documentazione Storica, Ferrara: p. 66 Collezione Silvia Villani: p. 69
Archivio Fondazione Carife: pp. 71, 73-75 Archivio Carife: pp. 77, 78, 80