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Discover everything about the Hadid family, from Gigi and Bella Hadid's modeling careers to their surprising secret sibling and family history ...
The new Republican tax plan could be a game-changer for middle-market companies, but potential pitfalls also exist.
A little known palace, part of the Bargello Museums complex, tells the Baroque history of one of Florence's most important ...
On Easter Sunday 26th April 1478, a group of conspirators from the Pazzi family decided it would really like to destroy the Medici family and would start by murdering its two leaders Giuliano and ...
Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after ...
The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move secretly and safely from one part of the historic Italian city to another. “It’s a reopening that allows us ...
The plot thickens when right-wing Italian politician Eric Casaburi claims the Vatican owes him hundreds of billions of euros as a descendant of the Medici family, whose members, centuries earlier ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and ...
A $700,000 to $750,000 mystery, according to estimations of the gemstone’s current value ... Ferdinando II de’ Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. When the Medici family line went extinct ...
Contrary to the overly dramatic storyline of the TV biopic “The Serpent Queen” on Starz, Catherine de’ Medici wasn’t really that bad as queen and later queen mother in 16th-century France.