“Cesso”: because the Cabinet is also called So?
Former cabinet "Cesso" It is a word that we all know and use not only to define commonly swim, but also as a synonym for something (or someone) that we find [...]
savoiardi biscuits: When were these Invented Biscuits?
Biscuits Savoiardi Would you have said the Savoyards, the famous biscuits also used for the preparation of many homemade desserts, date back to the Middle Ages? To be precise the end [...]
VII Sec. d.C.: Care “Soft” for Hemorrhoids
Treatment of Hemorrhoids in antiquity. In the seventh century. d.C. the Fiacro monaco proposed a cure "soft" compared to those generally in use In this post, which refers to [...]
That Womanizer Charlemagne
The drawing depicts Charlemagne with one of his most famous wives, Ermengarda. The monarch was an unrepentant womanizer Charlemagne, King of the Franks and skilled politician, he had [...]
The Super Body of Charlemagne
Portrait of Emperor Charlemagne. The monarch had an exceptional physical Emperor Charlemagne, according to the chronicles, He had an extraordinary physical, all that common in those days (http://www.pilloledistoria.it/1490/medioevo/laltissimo-carlo-magno). A [...]
How was dressed Charlemagne?
Charlemagne Despite the elevation of rank, Charlemagne had tastes pretty simple, also in clothing. Eginardo, Secretary of the sovereign, It informs us in detail about it, entering the following: "He was wearing [...]
Dracula: Character Real or invented?
Dracula in a film adaptation of the 1931 The creepy Count Dracula is the protagonist of the gothic novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897, Therefore, it is a character [...]
Pot Night in the Middle Ages
Using the usual "bedpan" in medieval times Yes, everyone has a story, also "bedpan". That is a prosaic but indispensable invention [...]
Charlemagne: The Food Favorites
Portrait of Charlemagne in his work Vita et gestae Caroli Magni, Eginardo, Secretary of Charlemagne, informs us, among other things, Also on the culinary tastes of the Emperor [...]
On the Trails of Count Ugolino
The Count Ugolino in prison. nineteenth-century painting by Giuseppe Diotti One of the best known of the Divine Comedy distance is related to the story of Count Ugolino, of which [...]
