Wendy Hawkins made the discovery of a lifetime when she noticed something odd about a neglected $10 print stacked among ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

In an era in which technology seems to dominate the lives of the youngest, a 77-year-old from Foggia, Giuseppe Mancini, known ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) and heaven ...

This week, we’re heading back, back, back again to Park City, Utah, where we’ll traverse frigid temperatures and snowy sidewalks for the Sundance Film Festival (January 23 – February 2) to ...

The upshot was that my schoolmates refused to believe the book was mine: it belonged to this Guile Good person ... in Padua – which broke with Byzantine convention – were painted in 1304-1306 and ...

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(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

Best of all, you can “go to hell” and visit the five so-called portals beyond purgatory yourself. Few places seem as synonymous with the netherworld than Gehenna, which is the Greek word for ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...