First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations sh...

In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbic...

Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets during the early 1500s and their contrib...

When he suddenly came to power in Italy in 1537, the young Duke Cosimo I de' Medici amazed friend...

When he suddenly came to power in Italy in 1537, the young Duke Cosimo I de' Medici amazed friend...

Confraternities and their contribution to the fabric of society have become invisible history ...

As the Second World War drew to a close, European borders were being redrawn. The regions of Istr...

As the Second World War drew to a close, European borders were being redrawn. The regions of Istr...

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italian...

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italian...

This A-to-Z reference of the European Renaissance features entries on important people, places, a...

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period...