While visiting a museum in Brescia, a tourist stumbled and damaged a priceless painting from the 16th century. The artwork ...

Many Italian writers have argued that a tomb from ... Throughout the Middle Ages, until the start of the 16th century, pasta dishes were markedly different from those eaten today.

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map ... was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century than the information recorded on nautical maps.