During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

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After three doctors fell in love with a fresco by Fra Angelico, they pledged to restore it so it could get its due when a ...

Villa Barberini, situated within the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo, is a site of exceptional historical significance ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

ONE welcomes especially any fresh utterance of Dr. Sarton on general lines, because he devotes himself too exclusively to the learned studies of which he is a master and speaks too seldom on the ...

Rarely do the Renaissance and radicality meet. At the Hoxton’s new Florence residence, that rarity is reality. The hotel’s in ...

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