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STORIES OF REBIRTH
#6 Say it with flowers!
We’re veryhappy to suggest you this reading, the same happiness we felt when we discovered this precious and refined jewel.
Le Language des Fleurs is one of the luckiest Nineteenth-century books in its genre, since it was immediately translated,illustrated and distributed all over Europe.
The author used a pen name, contributing to foster the magic and the fascination of such a romantic spirit. The Nineteenth century can be defined “the century of flowers”: the interest in botanics grows and becomes constant pretty everywhere, in particular the interest in floriography, that is appointing a symbolic meaning, a code, a proper grammar to each flower. Each feeling is assigned to a flower, developing a system that is able to express feelings more than words. The book is divided in 4 chapters, one for each season, and it is completed by 12 beautifully illustrated tables. So we discover that in a flowered bouquet there can be purity and desire… we dream is a perfumed language that nature gives us without asking anything in return:isn’t it the game of Rebirth?
Charlotte de Latour, The language of flowers
Italian edition by Casa EditriceLeo S. Olschki, collana giardini e paesaggio
SELF MOMENTS
#6 The ancient art of massage
Massages have been used since ancient times asa natural remedy for pain and fatigue, or as a relaxing technique. Since more than 2000 years before Christ, there are written examples of the use of massage, first in China, then India and Egypt, in which they were often carried out as divination rituals. In ancient Greece, massage becomes an habit for athletes and warriors, that strengthens them without losing the sensory/well-being aspect. This characteristic will grow in the next centuries until its maximum exploitation: the Baths in Rome. With the Romans, in fact, massages become common, a stage in the thermal routine, and are proposed as beauty treatments.As you can easily imagine, the Middle Ages were a dark period for this art:body manipulation in any form was considered sinful and therefore punishable. It was only in the Seventeenth century that the Swedish physician H. Ling defined the different existing types of massage and since the late Nineteenth century it is currently used as a medical treatment.
In addition to medical purposes, there is always the pleasure of a massage, an intimate and special moment to regain serenity and energy.
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#5 the park of monsters in Bomarzo
There is a place, near Viterbo, where enchantment and magic capture the incredulous visitor, whether a child or an adult.
This monumental complex, called the Park of Monsters of Bomarzo or “Villa of Wonders” was devised by the architect Pirro Ligorio on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini (1523-1585) after the death of his beloved wife Giulia Farnese, in 1560.
He wanted to create a unique place in the world, where imagination runs free, inspired by the classics but very modern also today, a place between mythology and fantasy. Gigantic animals, sirens,gods and heroes of Homer took shape from huge blocks of local stone and are setin a worthy naturalistic context.
The grotesque is expressed here at its most,every stop of the path- the main ones are 24 - gives beauty and wonder at thesame time, for an emotional experience that is worth a trip in any season of life.
The Park of Monsters is generally open all year round.
The Park of Monsters
Loc. Giardino
01020 Bomarzo (Viterbo)
ALCHEMY OF REBIRTH
#5 The magic of spices
Spices come mostly from the Far East and the Mediterranean basin and are used since the ancient times to flavor food and beverages, as well as in medicine, pharmacy and cosmetics.
These aromatic substances of vegetable origin (suchas pepper, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg…) were the queens of trade between East and West until the seventeenth century.
For this reason they have always represented thejourney, the distance and the mystery of unknown, magical places.
A spicy fragrance immediately transmits a burstof vital energy, the joy of active life, pushing us to discover the world in and out of us. The dream of the Arabian Nights surrounds us with the notes of pepper, coriander and cumin. Do not be surprised if you find yourself carried away on a magic carpet ride through the stars!