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The intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of any period in human history. Yet even as the social, political, and economic hi...

Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspi...

“Machiavellian”—used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless—is never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name...