Italy On This Day

Eight-month blockade gave Napoleon control of northern Italy French painter Hippolyte Lecomte's depiction of  Austria's surrender to...

Follower of Plato, Dante and Savonarola Girolamo Benivieni, pictured as an old man in a painting attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio T...

Writer left a definitive account of life at court in Renaissance Italy Baldassare Castiglione, the author of the Italian classic, The Boo...