This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Renaissance Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles and editions of documents on all aspects of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract L'émergence des Monti di Pietà dans les villes italiennes des débuts de la modernité a joué un rôle important en permettant une grande ...

Acclaimed Italian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will bring his thought-provoking film, “We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” to the Wexner Center for ...

The most versatile painting family in Italian history was the Carracci of 16th century Bologna, two brothers and a cousin who burst on the post-Renaissance scene as tireless and talented ...

In Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s famous maxim, well-behaved women seldom make history. Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana is no exception. Born in 1590, she entered Bologna’s Santa Cristina della Fondazza convent at ...

Just a few steps from the grandiose Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Italy, is the unimposing church of Santa Maria della Vita. You might easily walk past the building, for just ahead are the bustling open ...

The Baroque-era painter Annibale Carracci — underpaid during his lifetime and under-appreciated for centuries after his death — is enjoying a posthumous renaissance in his native Italy. What is ...