It’s hard to put into words how much we enjoyed visiting Florence at the end of our most recent trip to Italy. Our ...

during a bout of sickness. The Greek scholar only taught in Florence between 1439 and 1440 but his impact on the developing Renaissance was profound. He helped popularize the study of Plato in Italy ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

A 16th-century secret passageway built for the ruling family of Florence, Italy, has opened to the ... steps — was built in just five months by Renaissance painter and architect Giorgio Vasari.

The best hotels in Florence make it easy to take in historic architecture, museums and galleries. Here's where to stay in 2025, according to our editor who lived there.

Every year, Florence ... Renaissance palace and an arboretum, while the food consists of various memorable tasting menus by chef Ariel Hagen. Combining the chef’s passions for fermentation and ...

is a delightfully inventive whodunit , set in Florence, Italy, smack in the middle of the Renaissance, and populated with the era’s most famous and infamous personalities. The epistolary novel ...

U.S. Consul General in Florence Daniela Ballard speaks about the American Consulate's being open for "business as usual".

The ensuing whodunit unfolds in letters, as Vasari corresponds with friends and suspects across Italy, many of them ... in the unique qualities of Renaissance Florence: In few other eras could ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi ...