If you're already missing summer, what better way to escape real life than to travel to the Italian Renaissance? Imagine being lost inside a sun-baked city with tangled alleys leading to piazzas, loud ...

I will begin this two-part discussion of the roots of humanism with an overview of its manifestation in one particular node of the Western story, in Renaissance Italy. While there were many important ...

The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards. This, like so much of the popular understanding of 15th- and 16th-century Florence, is one of those truisms so often ...