The fragrance of Pantheon Roma tells the mighty amazement, the strong and passionate elegance and does it with a perfume with deep and animal tones, made but however? Extremely refined by precious planes, slight hints of mosses, spices and precious resins of the East. Annone, created by the skilled hands of the Naso Arcturatto Landi, tells a sensual and profound but elegant perfume at the same time. White, in fact.
Inspiration originates once again from an extraordinary story that concerns the life of Raffaello Sanzio to the court of Pope Leo X.
AND? On 1514, when Manuel I?, King of Portugal, in contrast to the Spanish crown, asks the Pope for help to have the domain on the way of the spices towards the East.
The sovereign decides to conquer the benevolence of the pontiff through an extraordinary gift.
So?, On March 19th of that year, the Portuguese enter Rome with a caravan of very rare animals destined for the Holy Father. Among these, he stands for his unparalleled Annone beauty, a splendid Albino elephant.
It must be said that at that time it was in fashion among the rulers showing animals from travel to the East and huge pachyderms in particular, but a white elephant had never been seen, among the other very elegant.
Leo x falls in love with it at the time and the feeling between the two and? Like this? I strong that the Pontiff reserves every possible cure for the precious animal. The elephant is placed first in a structure in the courtyard of the Belvedere in the Vatican, then transferred to an ad hoc building between the Basilica of San Pietro and the Apostolic Palace.
Pasquale Malaspina, poet and artist of the time, so? it describes it:
? In the belvedere, the elephant trained was conducted
who danced with so much grace and so much love
Could a man hardly dance better?
All the reporters of the time spoke of him as a very elegant, graceful and intelligent animal who, brought around the streets of Rome, aroused curiosity? And great admiration.
Despite having two dedicated people, who came specifically from India, who took care of it, the foster Pope? The supervision of the magnificent elephant, of which he admired the elegant beauty, none other than Pietro Aretino and Raffaello, the two artists he had at court.
Of Annone, Raffaello realize? On behalf of the Pope, a magnificent painting, on which the mystery of the disappearance weighs.
There is still today, however, in the Vatican apartments, where the Pope wanted it, the image of the beautiful pachymeron inlaid by Raffaello.
Annone di Pantheon Rome and? A fragrance that seduces and that hardly abandons you. Which speaks of the East with great elegance. Which remains in the heart and fixes to the skin.
