Parco Mediceo di Pratolino – Sensory walk through the green harmonies of the park
Hermetic philosophers claim that Nature is a book that teaches us to see beyond appearances
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Theater and show at the Medici court – Stables of the Pratolino Park
The splendor and magnificence of the Medici family finds a worthy and refined expression in the valuable wooden models of churches, palaces and gardens, now kept in the Medicean Park stables in Pratolino
Impressions on the guided tour to the alchemical park of Pratolino on 30 June 2018
Impressions on the guided tour to the alchemical park of Pratolino on 30 June 2018 A warm thank you goes to Enrico Gotti, who wrote this comment after visiting the alchemical park of Pratolino on June 30th! With Costanza Riva in the large park of the disappeared villa of Francesco I dei Medici and Bianca Cappello in Pratolino: a tragic love story, which after their sudden death, saw the destruction of the villa, the waterways, the caves and the results of cutting-edge engineering, labyrinths, today perhaps unrepeatable if not with augmented reality. All according to the direction of an alchemical [...]
The Pratolino Park the daring project of Prince Francesco I de’ Medici
(text Taken from Pratolino, the alchemical dream of Francesco I de 'Medici, myths, symbols and allegories, by Costanza Riva) "Wonder or amazement is nothing more than a great desire to know the cause of some effects." This is how Francesco de ’Vieri, a philosopher with deep hermetic knowledge at the court of Francesco I, expresses himself in his "Of the wonderful Works of Pratolino & Amore", describing the feelings that he was able to provoke at the time. He himself considers the art of "wonder" as the first result of all human activities and all sciences, a feeling of sudden [...]