Francis Ford Coppola has been hospitalized in Italy. The “Godfather” director, 86, was in the country to present his latest ...

In a new book, Yale’s Morgan Ng makes the case that breakthroughs in many fields of design yielded cutting-edge defensive technologies during the Italian Renaissance.

Antonio Solario's painting was snatched from the Civic Museum of Belluno in 1973. Now, after a drawn out legal battle and a ...

Both Caravaggio and Djokovic entered worlds ruled by giants, shattered conventions with defiance, and redefined greatness ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was ...

A British woman returned a stolen work by the Renaissance artist Antonio Solario, which she inherited from her late ex-husband.

Supporting sustainability and local economies, these out-of-the-way structures known as masserie are offering a new type of ...

AT the onset, let me declare that I am personally not in favor of family political dynasties. I hate to see immense wealth ...

Italian football has long been synonymous with defensive mastery. From the catenaccio pioneers of the 1960s to the rugged back‑lines of the 1990s, “Made in Italy” often meant defensive solidity ...

1. Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s biography of the Tuscan merchant Francesco Datini. “Always ...

Pumping out water or keeping rain from sneaking underground may prevent a volcano from erupting, or at least give ample ...