Italy On This Day

The colourful career of a pirate who became a pope A 1713 depiction of John XXIII by French printmaker Bernard Picart Baldassare Cossa, who ...

Bloody fight that entrenched rival factions in Catholic Church Robert of Geneva, rival pope to Urban VI Giacomo Orsini, a member of the Orsi...

Important date in Roman and papal history Pope Gregory XI was the last French pope and the last to rule from Avignon The French P...