THE RENAISSANCE OF CHILDREN, 600 years of hospitality at the Innocenti in Florence.

We know, most likely someone is wondering,” but what does this topic have to do with scales?” The answer lies in our attitude of engaging in good things and those we deem worthy of sponsorship and dissemination even through our media, and for once let us do that. Yes, because the story one learns by visiting the exhibition that will be on view in Varese from Feb. 14 to 21 at the Chamber of Commerce, in Busto Arsizio from Feb. 23 to March 1 at the Don C. Costamagna Institute and in Novara from March 4 to 11 at the Castello Visconteo Sforzesco is one that makes us realize how much the unique and precious experience of the Hospital degli Innocenti in Florence is a reality that in its six centuries of history has been able to combine “beauty” and “hospitality” unparalleled in the world. Through an iconographic itinerary, the exhibition celebrates 600 years since the founding of the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence and allows visitors to discover a reality recognized as the first work totally dedicated to children in the history of Italy. Visiting the exhibition, one will be able to perceive and savor the beauty of a fascinating place due to the artistic evidence and documentary wealth; a place that nevertheless is still a living environment today. Consider that the design was overseen by Filippo Brunelleschi, while the name derives from the episode contained in the Bible of the Massacre of the Innocents; depicted, among other things, in a fresco – preserved in the building – by Bernardino Poccetti. The Ospedale degli Innocenti was financed by theArte della Seta-one of the most important guilds of arts and crafts in Florence-thanks to the contributions of its members. And it also represents a glimpse of the life of the time when babies were abandoned in a sort of stoup under the portico. A curiosity: not everyone will then know that the surnames “Innocenti, Degl’Innocenti and Nocentini,” quite common in Florence derive from those that were attributed to the babies abandoned in the Hospital. We therefore give you an appointment in Varese, Busto Arsizio and Novara because beauty and welcome are to be lived as a unique and precious experience and we are happy when we can be part of it. PS. Admission is free!