Florence is a city that takes your breath away from the moment you step onto its cobblestone streets, where every piazza, palace, and church tells a story of the Renaissance and the artists who shaped ...

The museum’s former director, Eike Schmidt, is toying — somewhat mischievously — with entering the race to become Florence’s mayor. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome and ...

Kat Devereaux’s Escape to Florence is a beach read with far more substance than most. In first-person narratives that draw on a great deal of historical and geographical detail, the book chronicles ...

Imagine, if you will, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael sitting together at a Florentine lunch table, discussing painting over a bowl of thick Tuscan soup.