A University of Miami Ph.D. student in the Department of History sheds light on the dark history of witchcraft in 16th century Venice. In the dark of the night, Perina Marigi carefully climbed over ...

classical statuary in the Museo Archeologico and Jacopo Sansovino's 16th-century temple of learning the Biblioteca Marciana, all show Venice at its finest. Insider's tip: Less magnificent but ...

Sixteenth-century Venetian artistry is preserved within the walls of Palazzo Clary, whose piano nobile apartment is on the ...

FROM the moment it was written (in the very late-16th century), Shakespeare’s play The Merchant Of Venice has been a moral conundrum. In the drama, the Jewish moneylender, Shylock – who has suffered a ...

Hot on the heels of the Venice Biennale, an exhibition at the ... first popularized in 16th-century Europe. But despite the show’s narrowly demarcated name, the palatial palazzo’s exhibit ...

Today, the area is filled with Renaissance-era synagogues and the Museo Ebraico, which chronicles and displays Jewish Italian life beginning in the 16th century. Northeast of Venice’s Cannaregio ...

If you are a couple yearning for a beautiful romantic destination, Asia has tons of options, including beach getaways and ...

This particular bell tower was constructed in the early 20th century as a replica of the 16th-century original ... If you join one of the best Venice tours, you'll likely pass by the iconic ...

The 16th-century village of Kapsaliana in Rethymno, Crete has been transformed from a desolate, almost desolate place into a pioneering, world-class hotel. At the time of the Venetian occupation, ...

Franco has been semi-forced into the life of a 16th-century prostitute after the reality of her low status shatters her hope of marrying Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell, “Middlemarch”), her true love.

Technically Venice extends beyond the lagoon islands ... indulge in one of the city's most charmingly intimate cultural draws: an early 16th-century cycle of paintings by local artist Vittore ...