Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495.

A mural commissioned in 1503 for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence has been the subject of controversy and debate for more than ...

More than 500 years after his death, it's time this changed. Leonardo is thought to have been born on April 15 1452 in Anchiano, a small hamlet near the town of Vinci, close to Florence. His mother ...

Leonardo is thought to have been born on April 15 1452 in Anchiano, a small hamlet near the town of Vinci, close to Florence. His mother was a 16-year-old peasant girl called Caterina di Meo Lippi ...

More than 500 years after his death, it’s time this changed. Leonardo is thought to have been born on April 15 1452 in Anchiano, a small hamlet near the town of Vinci, close to Florence. His mother ...

Introducing size – below we look at Italy’s 30 largest towns and cities (a list which, notably, doesn’t include Venice or Siena) – often brings entirely overlooked destinations into the ...

ROME, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Avincis, Europe's largest provider of emergency air services, said on Monday it renewed its contract with Italy to operate the country's fire planes, for 479 million euros ...

Italy has reduced the number of migrant boats from reaching the country with one main tactic. Giorgia Meloni has used money to cut the number of illegal immigrants and refugees from North Africa ...

ROME, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, officials from her office said on Friday, in a trip that ...