A new Terre degli Uffizi exhibition arrives at the Museo della Battaglia e di Anghiari with the aim of narrating the deeds and works of the writers Federigo Nomi and Girolamo Magi , who lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and were born in the town. For four months, from 27 May to 17 September , the village will host handwritten and printed works from important cultural institutions and paintings from the famous Florentine museum : a real itinerary between the Medici courts and Venice, where Nomi and Magi lived and worked. "Intellectuals in battle, fame and oblivion of two men of letters from the Battle of Anghiari to the siege of Famagusta" is the title of the exhibition in the Museo della Battaglia e di Anghiari, curated by the director of the museum Gabriele Mazzi and resulting from recent studies by Pietro Giabbanelli , which made it possible to highlight the life and works of Girolamo Magi.

Indispensable for Magi, born in Anghiari presumably in 1523, was the meeting with the poet Pietro Aretino who helped him in the publication of the volume "The wars of Flanders" and the commissions of Cosimo I De' Medici , which later brought him to the service of the Serenissima . For Magi, the study of the treatise on military architecture by Albrecht Dürer was fundamental, which was the reference for that of the Anghiarese scholar, the " On the Fortification of the Cities " written together with Giacomo Fusto, known as Castriotto , and published in Venice in 1564 Venice remains the hub of Magi's mature activity, where he was elevated to the rank of " Knight of San Marco " and from where he left as superintendent of fortifications for the defense of the island of Cyprus during the war with the Ottomans, culminating in the capture of Famagusta by the latter. After the Venetian defeat, Magi was taken prisoner to Constantinople where he was executed. During his imprisonment he had time to compose literary works, including the "De Tintinnabulis" , published posthumously, one of the most significant treatises of all time on the sound of bells.