Florence

Read Robert Fox’s acceptance speech for his “Order of the Star of Italy” award.

One of the most accomplished painters of the Florentine Renaissance, Bronzino’s “Allegory of Venus and Cupid” is a bafflingly beautiful work of art.

From the early 90s, Chianti Classico producers have been improving the quality of the Italian wine.

Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, the son of Arthur Acton, was born in 1904. His father was an illegitimate offspring of an adviser to the Egyptian