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Folia Magazine wishes all of you the happiest of Holidays with this delicate, lantern-lit Nativity scene! This incredible illumination is included in a luxury Book…
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The cover page of the Paradiso displays an architectural structure that is complex yet light, almost like a triumphal arch. It gets its extraordinary lightness…
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As the three poets continue their journey through Purgatory, they reach the sixth Terrace, where souls are punished for the sin of Gluttony. Statius, Virgil,…
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Da oggi (precisamente alle 8.50 italiane!), con l'ingresso del Sole nella costellazione della Bilancia, l'Emisfero Settentrionale ha finalmente salutato l'estate e dato il benvenuto all'autunno! Per le popolazioni europee del Medioevo, il cambio di stagione…
Illuminations from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, ms. Latin 1156B, f. 135r, 15th century, Département des manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
Our weekly Women's Wednesday returns today with a chilling personality: Queen Athaliah of Judah, the only female monarch to sit on the throne of David in biblical history. Former princess of Israel, Athaliah married Jehoram, prince of Judah,…
September 16, 1380: on this day, King Charles V of France died after 16 years of reign. Despite his name being somehow overshadowed by the more famous Holy Roman Emperor of the same name, Charles V…
Illumination from the Book of Hours of Bénigne Serre, ms. Cod. 103, f. 168r, 1524, Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, private collection, Switzerland.
Summer is almost over… but our weekly appointment with Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris is not! Today’s Mulier Clara is Leaena, a Greek courtesan who got tangled up in a political assassination. One version of the…
Illuminations from the "Masters of the Dark Eyes Missal", ms. W.175, f. 158v, ca. 1500, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The name of this Dutch missal, originally from Utrecht, refers to an artistic movement named "Masters of…
Did you miss us? We surely did! The first article after our short summer break is, you guessed it, dedicated to our Women's Wednesday: our guest this time is Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae, an Iranian people living…
Are you enjoying your summer? With this lovely floral illumination, Folia Magazine is officially off to summer vacation! Our team will be taking a short break from office work, but don't fret: we'll be back…
As always, a new Wednesday means a new story from famous women in history as narrated by Boccaccio! This time, our weekly Women's Wednesday features Lucretia and the tragic events that led to the birth of…
