Peter Sposato, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University Kokomo, will present a talk that asks us to think differently about Italy in the late Middle Ages. Was it simply a shimmering ...

The medieval walled village of Venzone lies in northeastern Italy where the southern tips of the Alps are met by the Tagliamento River, in an area known as the Canal Del Ferro. Among other things, ...

Gilded paintings were popular in late medieval Italian art, but not every artist had the budget for real gold. Painter Cimabue used a mixture of pigments and silver powder to create a similar golden ...

Sarah Wilkins is a specialist in Late Medieval and Renaissance art history. Her scholarship focuses on patronage, the cult of the saints, and representations of women in Late Medieval Italy. She has ...

Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. from the Italian by Wayne A. Rebhorn. Norton, $49.95 (1,264p) ISBN 978-0-393-06930-3 In time for Giovanni Boccaccio’s 700th birthday, Wayne A. Rebhorn, professor of English ...