Italy On This Day

After frustrations in England Florentine made mark in Rome Giuseppe Berti's portrait of Alessandro Galilei The architect Alessandro Gali...

Prolific writer had huge influence on the development of religious music Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was once sacked by St Peter...

When the Pope was slapped down by a disgruntled landowner Boniface VIII had a long-running conflict with Philip IV of France An ...