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October 2015

Palazzo Tornabuoni Lifestyle, Unique Member Only Experiences

Autumn inFlorence

19New events

Truffle themed aperitivo

Private tour of theDuomo and Terraces

A Private Tour of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor

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October 2015

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friday, october 9th

Member Visit to the Il Toscano Cigar Factory

thursday, october 8th

A Presentation and Discussion with Author and Writer for The Florentine,Linda Falcone


Wine Tasting with Malenchini Wines

monday, october 5th

Truffle Themed Aperitivo

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friday, october 16th

Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano

saturday, october 17th

Truffle Hunting with Cristiano Savini

wednesday, october 14th

Private Visit to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure

tuesday, october 13th

Tour with Rocky Ruggiero, The Divine Michelangelo, Accademia Gallery and Medici Chapels


A Private Experience at Il Borro

monday, october 12th

Presentation with Jeremy Boudreau, Director of Art History at The British Institute

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Private Tour of the Duomo and Terraces


Member Club Dinner


Wine Tasting with Sommelier Marco Molesini


Classical Opera Recital


A Private Tour of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor when the museum is closed to the public

thursday, october 22nd

Lecture with Art Historian Elaine Ruffolo

wednesday, october 21st

Private Visit, Aperitivo and Concert at Palazzo Bargellini with Visit of Studio of Piero Bargellini


A Short Presentation on the Life and Work of Florences Mayor, Piero Bargellini

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monday, october 5th

Truffle Themed Aperitivo

Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge


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Members are invited to join a delicious truffle themed aperitivo. You will have the opportunity to taste and buy some of the freshest white

truffles in Tuscany.

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A Presentation and Discussion with Author and Writer for The Florentine, Linda Falcone

If They Are Roses: The Italian Way with Words

Unravel Italy’s idiosyncrasies and experience its essence in a

book that topples communication barriers and provides an idiom-

inspired road map to life in the Bel Paese.

Linda Falcone

Born in northern California and raised in a bi-cultural family, Linda Falcone is currently celebrating two decades of permanent Italian

living. An ex-language teacher who loves the rhythm of irregular verbs as much as the sound of the rain on the roof, she is a lecturer of

Italian culture and travel writing for American university programs in Italy. She is also an investigator of idioms, leaving few phrases

unturned during her seven-year stint as a cultural columnist for The Florentine. Since 2009, Linda has served as director of the Advancing

Women Artists Foundation and co-authored several books and documentaries on women artists including Art by Women in Florence: A

Guide through Five Hundred Years and When the World Answered: Florence, Women Artists and the 1966 Flood.




Wine Tasting with Malenchini Wines




Drawn from her column in The Florentine, Linda Falcone’s If They Are Roses is the sequel to the best-selling Italians Dance and I’m a Wallflower.

It clues into a country in which affection is abundant, jobs are scarce, art is more available than oxygen and soccer and style are one in

the same. It explores a language worth deciphering: being a ‘doctor’ has nothing to do with medicine, ‘My mother!’ is a substitute for ‘My

God!’ and al dente pasta proves a moral dilemma.

Discover the heart of everyday Italy, where conversation is as rich and energizing as coffee and wit is the daily bread of the common man.

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friDAY, october 9TH

Member Visit to the Il Toscano Cigar Factory


Presentation with Jeremy Boudreau, Director of Art History at The British Institute

Time Details To be confirmed


Jeremy has lived in Florence since 2000. After graduating with a degree in Museum Education from the Massachusetts College of Art and

Design in Boston, he completed his MA in Art History at Syracuse University as a Florence Fellow. Jeremy has taught Art History at the

Florence University of the Arts since 2009, and serves as the Academic Coordinator for the annual Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA High

School Renaissance Award Programme.








Tour with Rocky Ruggiero, The Divine Michelangelo, Accademia Gallery and Medici Chapels

Time 10.30 am-12.20 pm Where Meet in the Club LoungeCost € 60 per personRSVP by October 5, Minimum 4 participants


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IL BORROTOSCANA


A Private Experience at Il Borro

Time Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni at 8.30am Cost € 130.00 per person, includes cooking class, lunch, private visit of art collection. Transportation, € 45.00 per personRSVP by October 5, Please note this event is exclusive to 8 participants maximum, participation will be confirmed on a first come, first serve basis

The Il Borro Estate, with its medieval village, is located in San Giustino Valdarno, a small town in the province of Arezzo. It has a history

stretching back over one thousand years, which has involved such aristocratic players as the Pazzi family, yhr Medici Tornaquinci, the

Hohenloe family and the Savoias. Since 1993, it has been the property of Ferruccio Ferragamo and his family, who have undertaken a signi_

cant regeneration project, safeguarding the site and the surrounding agricultural countryside and restoring the village and the Manor

hourse, bombed during the Second World War. Today the Estate, which extends for 700 hectares to the foot of Mount Pratomagno in Val-

darno, is managed by Ferruccio Ferragamo, his wife Ilaria and son Salvatore, with all their customary passion.

8.30 am Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni

9.30 am Arrive at Il Borro

10.00 am Cooking Class with Executive Chef

12.00 pm Visit and walk around Il Borro

1.00 pm Lunch

2.45 pm Visit to the Cantine and Visit to Ferruccio Ferragamos extensive private art collection of 14th to 18th century prints.

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wednesday, october 14th

Private Visit to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure

Time 10.00 amWhere Opificio delle Pietre Dure Cost €100.00 per person, 6 persons required RSVP by October 7th , 2015

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Enjoy a private visit to the Uffizi restoration laboratory. Follow an expert on an exclusive visit to the Uffizi conservation laboratory at the

Fortezza da Basso. Tour the high tech facilities while an art conservator explains the methods and standards by which paintings are resto-

red. You may see works by Giotto, Raphael or Fra Angelico, out of their frames and under restoration.




friDAY, october 16th

Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano



Time Depart the Palazzo at 9.30am

Cost Euro 100 per person, cost includes transportation, private visit to winery with tasting, lunch is not included, 6 participants minimum required

RSVP by October 9th

9.30 am Depart Florence and drive to Siena

10.30 am Arrive in Siena. Your guide Margarita, will meet you in the Piazza del Campo and give you a tour of the historical centre

of Siena and its main monuments.

12.30 pm Lunch at Le Logge / Le Logge Via del Porrione, 33, Siena - Tel. +39 0577 48013

3.00 pm Arrive in Montepulciano. Visit of the Avignonesi Winery and Wine Tasting / Via Colonica 1

6.00 pm Arrive back at Palazzo Tornabuoni




saturday, october 17th

Truffle Hunting with Cristiano Savini

Time Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni at 7.45am Cost € 200,00 per person to be paid in cash to the Front Desk at Palazzo Tornabuoni. Price includes Truffle Hunting, Truffle Tasting, 5 Course Truffle Lunch and Transportation Minimum number of participants - 8 people

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For early risers only, this excursion will introduce Members to one of the most extraordinary Tuscan traditions. Members will arrive at

Savini Tartufi to meet Cristiano Savini and then depart for a three hour truffle hunt with trained dogs in the nearby woods. Following the

hunt you will then sit down to a 5 course truffle themed lunch.





Book Presentation of ‘The Third Muse’ with Author Dana Micucci

New York journalist Lena Leone is beautiful, successful, and has a devoted boyfriend. Yet something is missing. When her editor sends

her to Paris to investigate and write about a stolen Renaissance masterpiece, the Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, she becomes immersed

in a dangerous art scandal that tests her to the core and jeopardizes her life. Lena’s haunting visions of Giovanna in Renaissance Florence

turn up the heat.

The Third Muse combines mystery, suspense, history, and spirituality with radiant eloquence. Dana Micucci masterfully explores the

timeless quest for wholeness through the soul connection of two women six centuries apart. At the heart of her exquisite novel is a story

of unbridled heroism that will inspire strength and courage in women for generations to come. Discover the seven life-altering initiations

that lead Lena not only to solve the mystery of the stolen painting but to open to a more expansive love.

“This beautifully written mystery, set in the international art world, expresses a deep heart-centered wisdom inspired by Renaissance

ideals and the goddess archetype. In our own time of great change and rebirth, Dana Micucci celebrates the return of a divine feminine

consciousness and the power of love.”

Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul

“Dana Micucci’s The Third Muse is a wonderful blend of spirituality, history, suspense, and intrigue. At its center are the deep divine

feminine mystery teachings of the Magdalene Order. This novel serves as a powerful vehicle of awakening and remembrance for the

many present-day members of this Order who have yet to discover who they are.”

Catherine Ann Clemett, author of Soulweaving and co-author of Anna, The Voice of the Magdalenes

“The Third Muse is a captivating read! From the intriguing international art scene to time-traveling through the Renaissance, you will

be inspired and touched by the spiritual exploration of this book.”

James F. Jereb, Ph.D., award-winning author, visionary artist, and founder of the sacred site Stardreaming

Dana Micucci has enjoyed a decades-long career as a widely published journalist and author writing about culture, travel, and spirituality.

Her last book, Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman’s Journey around the World and into Her Truth, was a gold winner in the 2013 Nautilus

Book Awards. She conducts transformational talks and workshops nationwide. DanaMicucci.com






wednesDAY, october 21st

Private Visit, Aperitivo and Concert at Palazzo Bargellini with Visit of Studio of Piero Bargellini

Time 6.30 pm Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge

Time 6.00 pm Where Palazzo Bargellini

Cost € 60.00 per person RSVP by October 14th , 2015

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tuesDAY, october 20th

A Short Presentation on the Life and Work of Florences Mayor, Piero Bargellini



The palace was built in 1500 and is one of the most typical private Renaissance palaces in Florence, known also as Palazzo Da Verrazzano.

Piero Bargellini (1897-1980), the grandfather of the pianist Gregorio Nardi, was a wellknown writer, historian and man of culture. He beca-

me a symbol of Florence when he was the mayor of the town during the flood 1966. In his Studio he met the most important Italian writers

and artists of the 20th century, and several projects for Florence were born here. For this reason Bargellini and his rooms present a key to

understand Florence and Italy from “inside”, through a direct and personal esperience.

The Bargellini-Nardi family conserved the Studio with the antique furniture and the objects of Bargellini as it was in the past. The Studio

Bargellini is considered one of the most charming writer’s houses in Tuscany.

At the same time it remains a private place and is used by Gregorio Nardi and his family to make music, write, study, receive friends: in a

typically Florentine way to combine past and present culture.

As we do in our daily life, our guests can sit down on 16th century chairs, touch a Renaissance sculture or look at a 14th century fresco when

they take an apéritif on a confortable sofa.

We found out that in the 19th century also an important musician lived in our palace: Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer and founder

of the Conservatory. Gregorio is the only pianist who plays these beautiful Romances, and our visitors can listen to them in the same place

where they were composed almost two centuries ago.




thursday, october 22nd

Lecture with Art Historian Elaine Ruffolo

Popular leader and Renaissance art historian, Elaine Ruffolo, has been the coordinator of the Field Studies

program at Syracuse University for years. Known for her uncanny ability to bring historical characters, lives

and ancient times to life with vignettes of daily life.







A Private Tour of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor when the museum is closed to the public

Time 10.o0 amCost € 250 per person, please note that inclusive in this price is a donation to the Friends of FlorenceRSVP by October 18th, Minimum number of participants 6


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monDAY, october 26TH

Wine Tasting with Sommelier Marco Molesini

Accomplished Sommelier Marco Molesini from the Molesini Family will lead Members and Guests through a detailed wine tasting of both

Tuscan white and red wines.




Monday, october 26th

Classical Opera Recital



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thursDAY, october 29th

Member Club Dinner

Time Aperitivo served from 7.00 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club TerraceCost to be confirmedRSVP by October 20, 15 participants minimum required







Private Tour of the Duomo and Terraces

Time 11.00 amCost € 65 per person, 8 participants minimum requiredRSVP by October 20th




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