da Enrico Melozzi | 04/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Anonymous Sienese artist, Biccherna tablet with the commission for the calendar reform, 1582-1583. Siena, State Archive. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Teresa of Ávila died at Alba de Tormes, in Castile, during the night between 4 and 5 October 1582. The 5th of... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 02/10/2026 | Melos, Officina, Storia e tecnica
Antonio Stradivari in an imaginary nineteenth-century portrait. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The most famous man in the history of violin making is a visual phantom. Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona in 1737 after some seventy years of work and about a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 30/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Richard Wagner. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Riga, summer 1839. Richard Wagner is twenty-six. He has just lost his post as director at the city theatre, and he has a wife, Minna, a Newfoundland dog named Robber, and so many debts that his creditors have had... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 28/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
The Theater an der Wien. Via Wikimedia Commons.Vienna, Theater an der Wien, 22 December 1808, a Thursday of savage cold. The heating does not work, or does not exist; the audience keeps its coats on. The programme that Beethoven has organised for his own academy, the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 27/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Maurice Ravel, 1925. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Paris, Opéra, 22 November 1928. The new ballet commissioned from Maurice Ravel by the dancer Ida Rubinstein goes on stage: barely a quarter of an hour of music built on an idea that smacks of a laboratory... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 24/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Erik Satie. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Arcueil, a working-class suburb south of Paris, July 1925. Erik Satie has been dead for a few days, and his friends climb for the first time into the room where he lived for twenty-seven years without ever letting...
