“Minstrels weave through the crowd, jesters tumble across the lanes, knights clank past in armor that gleams under colorful banners and tapestries. Merchants shout the day’s offerings from booths ...

Jamie Oliver is to revive his Jamie’s Italian business, which could mean a return to the county of the chain which closed its Norwich branch ...

Fresh Air’s book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by ...

A Renaissance palace in Italy once built on tobacco wealth now lies abandoned its grandeur fading into silence.

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Stellantis NV will produce some 100,000 hybrid Fiat 500s at its Mirafiori plant next year, giving a lifeline to the historic center of Fiat Spa, as the manufacturer makes good on a pledge to bolster ...

Italy Renaissance Bible A journalist flips through a faithful reproduction of the 15th century Borso D'Este Bible, comprising two illuminated manuscripts, during its unveiling at the Italian Senate as ...

You need not be a fashion aficionado to recognize names such as Versace, Valentino and Armani. They are but a few of the famous fashion names, along with Ferragamo, Capucci, Buccellati, Bvlgari, Ferré ...

What makes “Renaissance to Runway” feel so alive is its sense of continuum. The exhibition doesn’t relegate the Renaissance to a gilded past; it threads it directly into our present. The fabrics, ...

Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses examines the art historical inspirations that fuel recent creative Italian lexicon, expanding fantasies of the Renaissance, Mannerist, and early ...

A book by Renaissance scholar Emanuele Lugli tells the story of Lavinia Fontana, who found rare success in the 1500s as a woman artist. An exhibition about the book is on view at Stanford through Dec.