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Curiosities about Historical Images and Ancient Symbols
The Lily of Florence
The famous symbol of the city embellished with the crown and acanthus leaves, a version minted during the period of Florence Capital 1865-1871. This image is reproduced with the negative in bronze and branded onto the leather. Products with this symbol: Casket, Dante Clock, Soft notebook, Hard notebook, Notebook cover.
The Florentine Fiorino
The Fiorino was the gold coin born in the city of Florence after the fall of the Roman Empire, and it was also used from the 1200s until the Renaissance as the preferred currency of exchange in Europe.
We created the plaques placed inside the Soft Notebooks and Hard Notebooks and on the lid of the Graphite Box.
The Dance of the Angels
Image imprinted using a bronze mold and an ancient hot press from the 1800s, it reproduces the “Dance of the Angels” or “Dance of the Farandole.”
It is a collective dance very popular in the late Middle Ages, cheerful and lively, where the revelers hop with small steps to the rhythm of music while holding hands. The image represents the festive dance typical of the city of Prato, performed by a crowd of happy young Angels on the occasion of the display of the sacred "Girdle of the Virgin Mary" kept at the Museum of the Opera del Duomo of Prato.
The bas-relief is the first on the left of 7 in the decoration of the pulpit of the Prato Cathedral and was executed in marble by Donatello (who lived in Florence 1386-1486 during the Renaissance). From this pulpit, every year, the display of the relic of the “Girdle of the Virgin” takes place, a cult and symbol of the city of Prato.
The life that emerges and bursts forth from the kindness and grace of this image is transmitted and you can share it by gifting one of our items that reproduces it. An item with this harmonious and spiritual image is ideal for celebrating a birth or union. Perfect as a gift for people in a religious or otherwise spiritual environment.
Items: Box, Soft notebook, Hard notebook, Notebook cover.
The Marseille Tarot
The Marseille Tarot is a type of "standard" Tarot. There is no certain data about their origin; they may have arrived in the hands of Egyptian soldiers around the 1400s, or perhaps were added to Italian cards with already existing classic suits. What is certain is that in 1760, the craftsman Nichola Conver from Marseille produced some decks of his own design, based on those already circulating since the 1400s, printing them with wood engraving and coloring them by hand. The name "Marseille" or "of Marseille" comes from him, but they became known by this name only at the beginning of the 1900s, when Paul Marteu, director of the Grimauld playing card publishing house, used this name for a deck of cards published for esoteric uses and based on the pattern of those produced by the craftsman.
The "Sola Busca" Tarot
The images are the originals from the “Sola Busca” collection, a series of Tarot cards created in 1491, the oldest complete deck in existence in the world, composed of 64 Minor Arcana, drawn and painted by anonymous artists of the time.
Sola-Busca is the family that was its last owner, and who donated the deck to the library at the end of the 1800s after decades of passing from hand to hand in ecclesiastical circles.
The series is composed of 78 cards: 22 “triumphs” and 56 cards of the four traditional Italian suits (coins, swords, batons, and cups): originally they were prints on paper from burin engravings, which were then illuminated with tempera colors and gold. Ours, however, are lithographic prints mechanically die-cut and protected by a matte lamination, details that reproduce the effect of ancient paper.
The more traditional images of the 15th-century “triumphs” are replaced by figures of warriors from ancient Rome and heroes from biblical history. The numeral cards, generally reserved for the simple reproduction of the four suits, are enriched with very complex figures, the deciphering of which has allowed the deck to be interpreted as a living testimony of alchemical-hermetic knowledge.
Among the depicted characters, there are some who are difficult to identify, also due to homonymy and probable distortions. The Roman characters are those connected to the Catiline conspiracy and the civil wars, with a possible allusion to events of internal politics that are difficult for us to specify today, at least until a more in-depth investigation is carried out on the classical sources of the fifteenth century and the Middle Ages. Classic tarot cards are codified in meaning, while the Sola-Busca are shrouded in mystery, rich in power and fascination.
The Italian Commedia dell'Arte
The characters of the ancient Italian Theatre, born at the end of the 1500s, come back to life in antiqued designs: Colombina and Pantalone the protagonists, the oldest masks of the Commedia dell'Arte. Born in the 1500s between Italy and France, it was one of the most famous and fashionable forms of theatre. Masks and costumes were used to make the characters instantly recognizable, each one well defined in character and behavior, thanks to which the actors improvised each show based on a generic storyline.
Colombina is a housemaid (domestic helper), beautiful, clever, and mischievous, who takes advantage of her qualities by having fun driving Pantalone, her master, crazy.
Pantalone was the rough, gruff, and conservative merchant, comically irascible.
Together with them we find Arlecchina, the younger female version and companion of Arlecchino, and Pulcinella, resilient in making fun of masters and the powerful.
The Birth of Venus
Famous painting by Botticelli from 1485, the painting is kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
This subject is reproduced in print with natural colors on special treated paper, with unlimited lifespan on the lid and inside of the aged wooden Music-box.
The Baccus by Michelangelo
This bronze used to emboss relief on leather has been named Baccus because most likely the author was inspired by Michelangelo's preparatory sketches for the study of the statue "Bacchus" kept at the Bargello. Items with Baccus: Tobacco pouch, Pencil holder, Brush holder, interior of the Graphite Box.
Frontispiece of the Florentine Recipe Book
This fascinating image is the frontispiece of the first "Herbario Novo" by the physician and botanist Castore Durante, dating back to 1585. A pen-and-ink reproduction of it can also be found inside our Ancient Herbarium. With bronze, we create the cover of some Hardcover Notebooks with antique-style tie closures and the Leather Herbarium.
Recipe Notebook
Recipe Notebook
Leather Herbarium
Leather Herbarium
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The history and the imprints of the civilizations of which we are descendants remain alive and powerful in the collective memory and in the strength of their vitality, still young and current.
The mission of those who love their own past and draw identity from it is to pass on the memory and live from its ever-modern vital energy.
For the creation of our objects, we take inspiration from the Middle Ages and Renaissance of Florence, the most famous periods that forever changed the profile of the city and its traditions.
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