Florence, the Athens of Italy, had banished the Medici family, after having put them in power, and had just burned Savonarola at the stake, after having regarded him as an idol and a prophet.

Moving back to Italy, we hear some church music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1554). He was one of the finest and most ground-breaking composers of the Renaissance period writing an ...

The School of Athens, one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The Medieval and Renaissance Studies ... a variety of disciplinary perspectives by selecting from ...