Italy On This Day

Brilliant scholar could recite long passages from Dante Jacopo Mazzoni was known for literary criticism as well as philosophy Jacopo...

Baroque works of art were designed to illustrate papal power Algardi's extraordinary marble relief, Fuga d'Attila , which he...

Italy's last universal genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a self-portrait from 1623,  which is housed in Rome's Galleria Borghese ...

Jesuit priest had a crater on the moon named after him Giovanni Battista Riccioli pictured in an illustration from a 17th century book...