Built in the 16th century, the Renaissance palace is ... “The Palazzo Volpi encapsulates the history of 20th-century Venice and stands as a testament to the vision of its patriarch—Giuseppe ...

When confronted with the limits of the known world, a 16th-century European cartographer ... but I was there to investigate the only unknown: Would Venice vanish underwater? Those reflections ...

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare set in Italy in the 16th century. It is classified as a comedy, although it also has elements of tragedy. Characters in The Merchant of ...

Rome has Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Venice has the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, an imposing 16th-century structure in the city’s San Polo district decorated with a series of more than 50 ...