Florence people: Domenico Cilenti an Italian famous chef in Florence

My relation with Florence? How did it start?
It started because of my business. I came to Florence as I am a consultant for a restaurant chain: Moyé.
This company owns restaurants in Milan, Miami and Florence… but I decided to live here. Florence has a fascination for me that no other city has.
I am betting on my future in this city. I want to live here. I want my family to live here. I want my children to have an education in this international city.

I arrived in Florence in December, 2014. Now I am sort of settled down. I got used to the city, to her atmosphere, to her unmistakable magic.

Why do I like this town so much?

I think because of her Beauty.

I come from a generous and beautiful land: Apulia. I am from Peschici, a little village in the north of Apulia.
I own a restaurant in this village, Porta di Basso, and with my family I run a relais (http://www.gliortidimalva.it/en/relais.asp).

What is my “mission” in Florence (because I have a mission in Florence!)?
To make known the Apulian food to Florence. To pair the pleasure of eating the typical products of my land with the architectonic beauty of Florence. To assemble the beauty of my region with the Beauty of Dante’s city, in a perfect and incomparable match.

It’s a gamble. My gamble. I cannot fail in this city. It is impossible to fail until this Beauty remains around me and gives me inspiration, day by day.

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The "Vita Nova"by Dante Alighieri. A book that should be read by those who are in the process for a trip to Florence

Io spero di dicer di lei quello che mai non fue detto d'alcuna

Written by Fabrizio Ulivieri

The "Vita Nova" by Dante Alighieri is definitely an outdated book for the times we live in.

Oudated mainly for one reason: it speaks of  Amore, Love, (with capital letter).

An idealization and interiorization of Love in order to transcend the factual and intrinsic love for a woman (Beatrice) and become the Motor itself of Dante's poetry.

A unique book in its structure: the story of Dante’s love for Beatrice until the Beatrice’s death (just perceived in a dreamlike vision). The painful history of Dante's dolor for this unhappy love that in the end becomes the Spirit itself of Dante's poetry. Prose sonnets and canzoni are mixed so as to tell us about a world that unfortunately is centuries away from our raw modernity: a world of Beauty and Love.

A book that should be read by those who are in the process for a trip to Florence. A book to be read before coming to this city, a book that will enable people to fully appreciate the scenery, the walls, the streets and the atmosphere that still breathe that Love’s atmosphere.

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