Italy On This Day

Brilliant tactician who outwitted his opponents Raimondo Montecuccoli, depicted in this 1650 engraving, was a renowned military strate...

Patron of the arts sympathised with Galileo Francesco Barberini knew Galileo from his days as a student at the University of Pisa F...

Feuding with the Popes led to the destruction of a city A portrait of Ranuccio II Farnese by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Denys ...