Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the early 15th century the Medici family helped foster a cultural revolution that took Italy out of the dark ages. Cut to ...

In 1478, one of the most shocking assassination attempts in Renaissance history unfolded inside a church during mass. The ...

FLORENCE, Italy — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former ...

The new season of the series, which airs on Netflix in the U.S., will star Daniel Sharman, Bradley James and Sean Bean. By Scott Roxborough German production heavyweight Beta Film has signed up to ...

The concept of “art for art’s sake” may be a fine vision, but the reality of art is often far less idealistic. From Napoleon’s patronage of Jacques-Louis David to John F. Kennedy’s choice of Robert ...

A few months after the Pazzi Conspiracy, Lorenzo is still animated by the spirit of revenge. There is a distant clash between Lorenzo and Pope Sixtus IV; the cruel count Riario - the last of the ...

It also proved one of their highlights. That was not perhaps so difficult. The series, which will air on RAI last quarter, and has already been renewed for a second season, is shot in the very same ...

During the early 15th century the Medici family helped foster a cultural revolution that took Italy out of the dark ages. Cut to the present. The English-language “Medici: Masters of Florence” TV ...