Symbolism

The symbolism is an integral part of the Tuscan Lifestyle. Speak for symbols, to express oneself through symbols, giving importance to abstractions that have their roots both in the earth and in being, is typically Tuscan.

Symbols, symbolism and metaphors

We are the virtuous from the metaphor And of alluding more or less veiled, more or less direct. highest literary allegories they are found in Dante's work. AND what is an allegory, with its hidden and allusive meaning, if not a symbol made of words?

Not whisper Perhaps Galileo: “And yet it moves”, alluding to the fact that it was the Earth that revolved around the Sun and not the other way around? So he did nothing more than use a symbolic phrase against his oppressors which in turn has become a symbol of rebellion.

In the second half of the Four hundred, to Florence arose, at the behest of Cosimo the Elder, theNeoplatonic Academy Of Marsilio Ficino, where a very young Lorenzo de' Medici, which would soon be the Magnificent, he held forth in learned men philosophical gatherings of the great tradition that went, without interruption, from Pythagoras to Orphism, passing through Socrate, Plato and Aristotle, up to Neoplatonism.

With him was the intellectual-artistic elite of the time, Mirandola Peak, Angelo Poliziano, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti. The Academy, a direct emanation of Humanism, was extensive use of symbols derived from great cults Greek mysteries.

The imposing ones artistic interventions and architectural of the same Doctors, behind a brilliant celebration of power, they were hiding unfathomable secrets and occult symbolisms. The passionand of Francis I, second Grand Duke of Tuscany, for alchemy he its symbols, is well known.

While the interest in astrology nurtured by Leonardo And Galileo It is part of the figure of the scientist of the time, on the border between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, between science and pseudoscience, between astronomer and astrologer, in which human reality and magic tended to merge in a less rigorous but perhaps broader vision than the current one.

Tuscany and the importance of symbols

Yes, we Tuscans we love the emblems that we report in the coats of arms, in the banners, in the pennants, which we paint in the paintings and we represent it in civil and religious architecture.

But TuscanyPeople it did not limit itself to just probing the symbols more properly linked to the our land, like the lily, the rooster, the number eight, the cross, the circle or the same swastika, representative of the proto-Masonic ideal which derived directly from the great humanistic philosophical thought And Renaissance.

The meanings of the most fascinating symbols

We also went to research, and will continue to do so, the deep meaning Of universal representations which the pomegranate, the cat, the peacock, the turtle. Because these too belong to Tuscany as part of the world.

And in the same way we analyzed the ancient OM, as well as archetypal forms of the human race such as the triangle, the four elements, the tree of life.

Come to think of it, everything is symbolic when viewed from a broader, more abstract perspective.

So what?, symbolically, you let's hold hands we'll take you to discover a world other than, it too, in its own way, it's Tuscany.