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Divina Proporzione Collection

The writing renaissance

Divina is a collection of innovative writing instruments that carries in its DNA the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci and the golden number (1.618), which is said to transmit the key of knowledge. The application for the first time of the golden ratio to a range of writing instruments has generated a revolutionary design, changing the aesthetic standard of fountain pens.

Some of the distinctive elements are the pentagram, the proportion between cap and section. However, the really captivating feature is the golden spiral that harmoniously envelops the pen. These elements melt together in an alchemy of forms and proportions to make a pen that can be defined as the fifth essence of elegance: so modern to seem timeless, so ancient to seem supernatural: in one word "Divina".
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The Divine Proportion is based on the golden number, 1.618, which gives an ideal ratio which is enjoyable for the eye. This number, also called phi, is also used to trace circles divided through ten - called decagons - or through five - pentagons.
The discovery of the golden ration comes from the most remote ancient times, from the prehistoric era. Our ancestors learned very soon how to trace and divide circles; they of course favoured the division of circles by five, because of the five fingers of the human hand. These numbers lead to the natural calculation of some special proportions. Euclid was first to mathematically define these calculations.

To the Pythagorians, the golden number was both secret and sacred, particularly the five-pointed star - a symbol of life, beauty and love. The pentacle is commonly thought to be the symbol through which the Pythagoreans recognised each others, but it came into our tradition throughout the centuries as a talisman of good health: we find it on some ancient coins and on several gothic cathedrals and churches.

Plato recognised that the golden number had a central role in the explanation of the universe. During the XII century, Fibonacci, also Called Leonardo da Pisa, mathematician, merchant and great traveller got in touch with this scientific discipline in the Middle East, discovering the famous "Fibonacci sequences".

In 1509 Leonardo Da Vinci illustrated De divina proportione, the work of a Franciscan mathematician, Luca Pacioli. This book, with pictures by Da Vinci, was a great success, as it was the written version of an ancient oral tradition. It was revealing a mystery. Da Vinci's "The Vitruvian man" illustrates the Divine Proportion.

Today we know that the divine proportion is present in architecture from the Parthenon to Le Corbusier, in painting, in music, in the structure of poems, but also in nature, in many plants and animals (many flowers have five petals, some leaves are placed on stems according to the phi ratio, which is present also in the starfish and the sea urchin). The divine proportion seems also to rule the human body: the navel, for example, divides the body according to the golden number.

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The inspiring concepts in the design of these pens are the Golden Number, the Pentagram, and the Nautilus.

The Golden Number: the ratio between the length of cap and pen in both open and close conditions reflecting the divine proportion.
The Pentagram: it is part of the form of the pen itself, of course adapted to the ergonomic needs of a writing instrument.
The Nautilus or "Golden Spiral": according to the Fibonacci Series, the Golden Spiral envelops the pen without breaking up.
Pull & Turn is a piston filling system with retractable actuator.

The pen is available in several finishes:

Black Lucite and Silver
Black Lucite "Royale" with 250 crystals
Pink "Royale" with 250 Crystals
Limited Edition Celluloid Ballpoint with Silver appointments