Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the ...

Boats moored in an "alley" in Venice, Italy. (Walt Girdner/CNS) ROME (AFP) — A Renaissance historian has unearthed the oldest known image of Venice dating from the 14th century, showing how even then ...

The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly ... devotional art and architecture of sixteenth-century ...

See Craig Kallendorf, Virgil and the Myth of Venice, Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 11. I use the American spelling of the poet's name, Virgil, ...

The Doge's Palace is now a museum open to the public, packed with works by the greatest painters and sculptors of the Italian ...

Elegant Renaissance palazzi squeezed between ... at the Venice Biennale this year What to see at the Venice Biennale this year Ultimate Italy: 14 ways to see the country in a new light Ultimate ...

Begin your Italian adventure in Rome, where ancient ruins, Renaissance art ... make it a perfect prelude to Venice. Verona is ...