1. Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s biography of the Tuscan merchant Francesco Datini. “Always ...

During the Renaissance, Italian city-states contributed greatly to the region's wealth. Families with affluence were able to support artistic movements and scientists, ... Merchants were able to sell ...

Italian Renaissance muses inspire their descendants centuries later ... a Renaissance art expert from Rhode Island, ... a silk merchant and a friend of da Vinci’s.

Italian and American scientists will exhume the remains of 49 members of the Medici clan, the powerful Renaissance merchant family that ruled Tuscany, to study what they ate and what illnesses ...

Powerful merchants and bankers invested their fortunes in painting, ... This master of the Italian Renaissance died in 1510, at age 64. Many of his most celebrated works were, ...

Donatello: Italian Renaissance star on show. ... The son of a wool merchant, Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi is believed to have been born around 1386 in Florence, Italy, ...

A confirmation of the ship's identity will make it the first Renaissance-era ship with its hull timbers intact. It was one of the largest Italian merchant vessels of its time when it went down.