Florence's Golden Hours 1/2

Ariane Bilheran's Lucarne (Skylight), in Antipresse 439 - April 28, 2024.

"In the spring, which suits this city so well that speaks to us of flowers, I decided to come from South America to finally realize an old dream: to reopen, with a group of apprentice philosophers, the Neoplatonic Academy of Marsilio Ficino."

Florence is, first and foremost, a light, or as jewelers would say, an Orient. It takes the eye of a scholar, a poet, and a philosopher to savor the thousand facets of this brilliance. Ariane Bilheran explored the city with just such a gaze...

Portrait de Marsile Ficin (le visage qui regarde vers nous) à la basilique Santa Maria Novella, par Domenico Ghirlandaio.

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