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Basilica di Santa Prassede - Roma La Basiica di Santa Prassede, ricchissima di opere darte può essere quasi definita una (More) La Basiica di Santa Prassede, ricchissima di opere darte può essere quasi definita una sintesi dellarte medievale in Roma. Prende il nome da Santa Prassede (colei che agisce, dal greco), sorella di Santa Pudenziana e figlia del senatore romano Pudente, discepolo di S.Paolo. Un'antica leggenda narra che Prassede e Pudenziana sarebbero state uccise perché dedite a dare sepoltura ai martiri delle persecuzioni di Antonino Pio nei pozzi situati nel vasto terreno di proprietà del padre. La chiesa, fondata nel IX secolo da papa Pasquale I sull'antico titulus Praxaedis della fine del V secolo, subì vari restauri nei secoli XV, XVII e XIX, che ne alterarono alquanto il primitivo carattere. Nel centro del rifatto pavimento cosmatesco un disco di porfido ricopre il pozzo nel quale la santa raccolse i resti ed il sangue dei martiri: si parla di diverse migliaia e proprio per questo la chiesa è una delle più venerate di Roma. A metà della navata destra si trova la Cappella di S.Zenone, uno dei più importanti monumenti bizantini in Roma, eretta da Pasquale I come mausoleo della madre Teodora. Le due colonne di granito nero e la ricca cornice curva sostengono un'urna cineraria con i resti di Zenone, sacerdote e martire; linterno della Cappella, a volta, con colonne angolari, è interamente ricoperto da straordinari mosaici e così splendente da essere stato chiamato il Giardino del Paradiso. I mosaici rappresentano le figure del Cristo, della Madonna, di S.Prassede e dell'episcopa Teodora con il nimbo quadrato dei viventi. Nella nicchia sopra l'altare vi è la raffigurazione, a mosaico, della Madonna con il Bambino. Il pavimento è un antichissimo esempio di opus sectile a marmi policromi. In una nicchia a destra dellingresso è custodita una colonna portata a Roma da Gerusalemme dal cardinale Giovanni Colonna nel 1223: la tradizione vuole che sia un frammento della colonna alla quale fu legato Gesù per essere flagellato. La Colonna della Flagellazione è custodita in un reliquario di bronzo dorato e risulta variamente intagliata a causa dei piccoli frammenti utilizzati come reliquia nei tempi passati. Altre tradizioni legate a questa chiesa ci dicono che la lunga tavola di marmo posta a sinistra della navata serviva da letto alla santa che vi dormiva per penitenza, mentre l'urna posta sotto l'architrave d'ingresso racchiuda le ossa di S.Valentino, protettore degli innamorati. Notevoli anche le sepolture, fra le quali quella di mons. Santoni, il cui busto dicesi opera prima del Bernini, che lo avrebbe scolpito a soli dieci anni. Due belle gradinate di rosso antico portano all'altare maggiore, gradinate che colpirono il gusto degli emissari di Napoleone, che ordinò di rimuoverle e trasportarle a Parigi per divenire i gradini del suo trono imperiale: evidentemente, e per fortuna, il progetto andò in fumo.
The church in its current form was commissioned by Pope Hadrian I around the year 780, and built on top of the remains of a 5th century structure and was designed to house the bones of Saints Prassede and Pudenziana, the daughters of St. Pudens, traditionally St. Paul's first Christian convert in Rome. The two female saints were murdered for providing Christian burial for early martyrs in defiance of Roman law. The basilica was enlarged and decorated by Pope Paschal I in c. 822.
Pope Paschal, who reigned 817-824, was at the forefront of the Carolingian Renaissance started and advocated by the emperor Charlemagne. They desired to get back to the foundations of Christianity theologically and artistically. Paschal, thus, began two, linked, ambitious programs: the recovery of martyrs' bones from the catacombs of Rome and an almost unprecedented church building campaign. Paschal dug up numerous skeletons and transplanted them to this church. The Titulus S. Praxedis was established by Pope Evaristus, around 112.
The most impressive element of the church, clearly, is the mosaic decorative program. Paschal hired a team of professional mosaicists to complete the work in the apse, the apsidal arch, and the triumphal arch. In the apse, Jesus is in the center, flanked by Sts. Peter and Paul who present Prassede and Pudenziana to God. On the far left is Paschal, with the squared halo of the living, presenting a model of the church as an offering to Jesus. Below runs an inscription of Paschal's, hoping that this offering will be sufficient to secure his place in heaven.
On the apsidal arch are twelve men on each side, holding wreaths of victory, welcoming the souls into heaven. Above them are symbols of the four Gospel writers: Mark, the lion; Matthew, the man; Luke, the bull; and John, the eagle, as they surround a lamb on a throne, a symbol of Christ's eventual return to Earth.
Santa Prassede also houses a segment of the alleged pillar upon which Jesus of Nazareth was flogged and tortured before his crucifixion in Jerusalem. (Less)
Under a Tuscan Sun Flying over Cortona in Tuscany - In 2002, whilst living in Castiglion Fiorentino in Tuscany, I had (More) Flying over Cortona in Tuscany - In 2002, whilst living in Castiglion Fiorentino in Tuscany, I had the opportunity to do some flying over Cortona and my Village, please enjoy the sights of a wonderful village -- compliments of Alessandro Sorbello Productions http://www.alessandrosorbello.com you are listening to the original music of Jaider http://youtube.com/watch?v=E4O7STJFGxA
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Travelling south from Arezzo you pass through the rather flat and uninspiring Valdichiana (this is drained swampland, reclaimed along with the Maremma by the Etruscans, and now prime cattle country), flanked by numerous hilltop towns, the finest of which is undoubtedly Cortona. Visible from all around, a five kilometre drive through vineyards and olive groves, passing the splendid Renaissance church of Santa Maria delle Grazie en route, will take you up and up towards the town, dominated by the ubiquitous Medici fortress.
This is one in a series of films produced and published by Alessandro Sorbello http://www.alessandrosorbello.com and taken from the air which show the area around Cortona and include, Under a Tuscan Sun http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQCajbkw5yo and Flying Over Lago Trasimeno, Umbria http://youtube.com/watch?v=okuPTgzHTe0 and Incorporates Tuscany Villas and landscapes http://youtube.com/watch?v=nYFtAm-vE_g whilst flying over Flying over Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany http://youtube.com/watch?v=u6qlAdK1TrY
Cortona is surrounded by ancient fortified walls, and this built in planning restriction has meant that nearly all new development has occurred lower down the hill, leaving Cortona as a delightful mediaeval town to explore on foot.
Cortona was an Etruscan town that today offers many important remains: the outer walls, the bronze lamp from the 5th. century BC, the majestic tombs of noble families with the latest discovery, the Melone II of Sodo, dating back to the 7th. century BC.
The Etruscan town welcomes its visitors not only on behalf of the "Lucumoni" (the ancient Etruscan lords), but also on behalf of its popular patron saint, Saint Margaret of Cortona along with San Francis of Assisi who founded the hermitic monastery of "Le Celle" in Cortona.
It was one of the most evolved medieval city-states, still profuse with pure renaissance forms; The Calcinaio church, Francesco di Georgio Martini's masterpiece.
The present perimeter is about 3 Km. And it coincides, for almost 2/3, with that one of the ancient Etruscan town-walls, on which the present walls are built.
The Etruscan remains can be distinguished from the overhanging walls which were built during the Middle Ages, because they are made of huge quadrangular rocks. On the hilltop of the cortonese's hill is the Medicean fortress required by the Medici family and built by Francesco Laparelli in 1549.
Cortona, hometown to so many famous painters from Luca Signorelli to Pietro Berrettini da Cortona to Gino Severini. And then the last little secret about Cortona: some ancient historians suggested that Ulysses was buried here! It is only a legend, but what an extraordinary one!
Cortona and Tuscany are the subject of several highly readable books by Frances Mayes wrote about renovating are house in the area where she still lives for part of the year. These books give a highly authentic impression of life in this part of Italy. One of her books, Under the Tuscan Sun was made into a popular movie.
Cortona is a small but fascinating city in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy, situated on a commanding hill, and overlooking Lake Trasimeno. Its cyclopean walls, still in great part preserved, are said to be 3000 years old. It was one of the twelve cities of Etruria and in its vicinity many ruins and Etruscan tombs maybe seen. Cortona took part in all the wars against Rome until 310 B.C. when Fabius Rullianus defeated the Etruscans and took Perugia. Perugia, with other cities including Cortona, then made peace with Rome. Later Cortona was destroyed by the Lombards but was soon rebuilt. In the fourteenth century it was governed by the Casali and afterwards became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Many famous men were born or lived in Cortona: Brother Elias (Elia Coppi), the famous companion of St. Francis of Assisi, and later Vicar-General of the Franciscan Order; Cardinals Egidio Boni and Silvio Passerini; the painter Luca Signorelli; the architect and painter Pietro Berrettini (Pietro da Cortona). St. Margaret of Cortona (1248-97) was born at Laviano (Alviano) in the Diocese of Chiusi, and became the mistress of a nobleman of the vicinity. On discovering his body after he had met a violent death, she repented and, after a public penance, retired to Cortona, where she took the habit of a Tertiary of St. Francis and devoted her life to works of penance and charity.
There still exist in Cortona religious works due to her zeal. Leo X permitted her veneration at Cortona, and Urban VIII extended the privilege to the Franciscan Order. Benedict XIII canonized her in 1728. Her body rests in a beautiful sarcophagus in the church dedicated to her at Cortona. It is not known whether Cortona was an episcopal see previous to its destruction by the Lombards. From that time until 1325 it belonged to the Diocese of Arezzo. In that year, at the request of Guglielmo Casali, John XXII raised Cortona to episcopal rank, as a reward for the fidelity of its Guelph populace, Arezzo remaining Ghibelline. The first bishop was Rainerio Ubertini. Other bishops were Luca Grazio, who was a distinguished member of the Council of Florence (1438); Matteo Concini (1560) and Gerolamo Gaddi (1562) were present at the Council of Trent. The cathedral and the other churches of Cortona possess numerous works of art, especially paintings of the school of Luca Signorelli and of Fra Angelico.
FROM THE ORIGINS OF THE CITY TO THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
The foundation of the city is lost in the fog of numerous legends of which there are traces going back to the classical era. These legends were elaborated upon and notably took shape in the late part of the Renaissance period under the rule of Cosimo the First (1537-1574). Despite opposition, he set up a plan to achieve the following goals:
- In regards to the Florentine ruling class: to enhance the image of the Tuscan territory as ancient Etruria not only for the antiquity of all its most famous cities which dated back to roots of civilization immediately following the Great Flood, but with the aim of obtaining for the the territory and for the city the recognition of a Grand Duchy and the title of Grand Duke for Cosimo. This was granted by Pope Pius V in 1570-
- In regards to the Cortonese ruling class: to enhance the image of the city by presenting it as the most noble and ancient among the cities of Tuscany, which had enjoyed an autonomous social structure from the time of the Etruscan lucomonia until it was transformed into the free Comune of Medieval times. Placed in the context of that time, in which the relationship with the "Signori" of Florence who had taken over Cortona was bitter, this research into the myths and legends particularly of those Etruscan gave an opportunity to the ruling Cortonese to reclaim some of the city's autonomy.
The guidebook from the sixteen hundreds by Giacomo Lauro, refers to writings by Annio Viterbese (1432-1502), who touches on many writers of antiquity. He reports that eight hundred years after the Flood, Noah while navigating at the mouth of the Tiber River, crosses il Paglia and enters into the valley of the Chiana. He likes this place more than any other in Italy as it is very fertile land and therefore stops and lives there for thirty years. One of his offspring named Crano arrives at one of the hills and is very pleased with the altitude, the amenities and the air of tranquility. He builds the city of Cortona on this spot two hundred-seventythree years after the Flood. It is affirmed by Stefano, a great Greek historian, as the third city in Italy to be built after the Flood, and the metropolis of the ancient Turreni people.
Noah saw that Crano had done a good deed and names him Corito, that is King and Successor of the Realm. In fact Curim, from which the word Corito derives means scepter which is called Quirim in Latin from which the title Quirino is given to Romolo. Crano, after taking the title of King, constructs a kingdom of towers high on the hill of which there are still remains in an area called Torremozza. The kingdom of Crano was called Turrenia because the city that the descendant of Noah constructed had high towers. This was the first name of Tuscany and the inhabitants were called Turreni. However, as they were descendants of Noah who had been spared from the waters "ab imbribus" some were called Imbri or in vernacular Umbri.
From the descendants of Crano, Dardanus was born. Following internal turmoil he flees to Samotracia then to Frigia and finally to Lydia, where he founded the city of Troy. From Troy descendants of Dardanus, now Greeks, return to live in Turrenia, that is Tuscany, and they were the Etruscans.
Among these Greeks who came to Turrenia and Cortona were Ulysses and Pythagoras. In fact, ancient legends which are reported by the greek writers Aristotle and his conteprorary Teopompo, would have Ulysses emigrate ater his return to Itaca and the masssacre of the Proci, to Italy and more precisely in Etruria, to the city which Teopompo called in Greek Curtonaia, and citing this place, Cortona proper or its suburbs as his burial place. In Etruria Ulysses was much respected and referred to as Nanos which meant the Wanderer and his burial site was identified as being at "monte Pergo" near the modern day location of Pergo., Pythagoras after his stay in Cortona, died there, and was buried in a tomb which is called today "Grotta di Pitagora". According to Virgil (Eneide III and IV), Enea a descendant of Dardano fled the destroyed city of Troy to Lazio where his descendants founded Rome. This would have Cortona giving origin first to Troy and then to Rome. (Less)
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