Casa Vasari, Florence
The Casa Vasari is a building at 8 borgo Santa Croce in Florence, previously the residence in that city of the painter, art historian and architect Giorgio Vasari. It preserves a valuable cycle of frescoes in the hall, conceived and created by Vasari with the help of pupils. History The building, dating back to around 1500 when palaces were erected or the pre-existing medieval terraced houses were redesigned in this area, is known to have been the Florentine residence of the painter Giorgio Vasari, rented to him by Duke Cosimo I de Medici, since 1557 after being requisitioned in 1548 from Niccolò Spinelli, owner of various buildings in the area (such as the Spinelli palace at no. 9 of the street). In 1561 the house was definitively donated to the artist as a sign of gratitude for his services. Similar to what was done in his residence at his hometown of Arezzo, the elderly artist and his collaborators, among them in particular Jacopo Zucchi, frescoed various rooms around 1572 ...
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Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy)
– Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Itali ...
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