Italy On This Day

Soldier from poor origins became general commander of Venetian armies Erasmo da Narni made a  living as a condottiero One of the most famous...

Designs became a template for Renaissance palaces A detail from a Fra Angelico painting is taken to be a depiction of Michelozzo  The influe...

Renaissance ‘genius’ famed for glazed terracotta Della Robbia's Resurrection over the door of the northern sacristy in the Florence duom...

Calligrapher who could read Latin changed the course of history The linguist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini was born in a village near...

Great thinker famous for Galileo ‘denial’ Cesare Cremonini was one of the most revered Aristotelian philosophers of his day The phil...

Career scarred by petty jealousies Bartolommeo Bandinelli - a self-portrait The sculptor Bartolommeo Bandinelli, a contemporary and...

Tuscan capital devastated on same day six centuries apart Plaques on the Via San Remigio in Florence mark the level of both floods ...

Banker who founded the Medici dynasty This portrait of Cosimo by Jacopo da Contormo  can be viewed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence ...

Pilgrims honour the saint famous for his miracles The Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua The feast of Saint Anthony of Padua (Sa...