Italy On This Day

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

Neapolitan who snubbed Napoleon wrote 37 operas Niccolò Zingarelli was one of the most successful composers of his time The composer ...

Florentine became Medici court painter Bronzino's portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, with her son...