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7 unusual facts about Cortona


Che sarà

The lyrics of the song describe the singer's sadness at having to leave his native village (Paese mio che stai sulla collina disteso come un vecchio addormentato; Oh my village set on the hill, lying down like an old, sleeping man) and were inspired by Cortona, a small town in Tuscany where the lyricist, Franco Migliacci, had lived for many years.

Cortona

Tabula Cortonensis – An ancient Etruscan artifact found in the city of Cortona in 1992.

The 17th-century Guide of Giacomo Lauro, reworked from writings of Annio da Viterbo, states that 108 years after the Great Flood, Noah entered the Valdichiana via the Tiber and Paglia rivers.

Frances Mayes

The book is a memoir of Mayes buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural Cortona in Tuscany, a region of Italy.

Now writing full time, she and her poet husband divide their time between homes in Hillsborough, North Carolina and Cortona, Italy, where she serves as the artist director of the annual Tuscan Sun Festival.

International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

The Moscow Conference was followed by meetings in Cortona in 1970, Balatonfüred in 1972, and Philadelphia in 1974.

Lapith

A frieze with a Centauromachy was also painted by Luca Signorelli in his Virgin Enthroned with Saints (1491), inspired by a Roman sarcophagus found at Cortona, in Tuscany, during the early 15th century.


Alberto Alfonso

Alfonso is also an exhibiting painter and has been a featured artist at The Tuscan Sun Festival 2010 and 2011 in Cortona, Italy.

André and Magda Trocmé

André Trocmé (April 7, 1901 – June 5, 1971) and his wife Magda (née Grilli di Cortona, November 2, 1901, Florence, Italy – October 10, 1996) are a French couple designated "Righteous Among the Nations."

Andrew Ducarel

He was also elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries at Cortona on 29 August 1760, was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society of London on 18 February 1762, became an honorary fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Cassel in November 1778, and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1781.

Biagio d'Antonio

His other works include the Temperani predella at Cortona and a Madonna between St Francis and Mary Magdalene at San Casciano in Val di Pesa.

College of Our Lady of Antigua

Other works include five works of the painter Mannerist Andrea del Sarto, "St. Margaret of Cortona", "St. Agnes", "St. Catherine of Alexandria", "San Pedro" and "San Juan Bautista".

Crown of Immortality

The first use of the crown of stars as an allegorical Crown of Immortality may be the ceiling fresco, Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (1633–39), in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona.

Ensemble Micrologus

Other recordings that have received awards are Napoli Aragonese (2001), Laudario di Cortona (2001), El Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (2003), and Le Jeu de Robin et Marion by composer Adam de la Halle (2004).

Silvio Passerini

At Florence he commissioned a tapestry from cartoons by Andrea del Sarto and Raffaellino del Garbo, which is conserved in the diocesan museum at Cortona.

Tenimenti Luigi d'Alessandro

The label of the Migliara Cortona Syrah received a score of 98 points from Wine Spectator.

Torrita di Siena

Torrita di Siena borders the following municipalities: Cortona, Montepulciano, Pienza, Sinalunga, Trequanda.


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