The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses ... and the future French king Henry II of France. Catherine was raised in Florence, the epicenter of the growing cult of refined eating ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical care, drugs for pain relief, and religious ceremonies. This story appears ...