And if you want more insights into Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, especially this Holy Week, I commend the words of an Italian ...

The man in charge of the city, Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, faces threats from the ... so of course Queen Catherine of France — Cosimo’s rival — desperately wants it, too.

In South Asia, the focus is on two key themes of bilateral cooperation: literature and arts and crafts.

The Medici family was one of the most powerful Italian families during the Renaissance era, particularly when Catherine de ...

This lavish drama tells the story of a queen who had a huge impact on history. Catherine de Medici, the infamous 16th-century Queen of France, earned her serpentine nickname through a predilection for ...

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Devastatingly beautiful and incredibly cunning, Diane de Poitiers was the most infamous woman in 16th-century France—and for ...

The Centro Storico is the absolute best place to stay if it’s your first visit to Rome. Here, you’ll be right in the thick of ...

TAPPS state tennis tournament started Monday for Class 6A, 5A and 4A programs. Tons of Dallas-area programs had athletes ...

On March 21, the Medici Museum in Livorno was inaugurated. The first floor of the Granai di Villa Mimbelli (via San Jacopo in Acquaviva 67, Livorno) now hosts a rich collection of paintings, drawings, ...

However, in 1397, he left Constantinople again to take up a new position as a professor in Florence at the behest of Coluccio Salutati, the most prominent political figure in the city until the rise ...

‘Was it really the greatest siege?’ Catherine de Medici asked. ‘Greater even than Rhodes?’ ‘Yes, madame,’ the knight commander Antoine de La Roche answered, ‘greater even than Rhodes. It was the ...