Perhaps one of the most heated debates in C15th history pertains to the mystery of the Princes in the Tower. What happened to the two boys? Why did they disappear? Were they murdered by their… Read More »Princes in the Tower – Recent Research
Starting in the C14th, western Europe experienced a cultural revolution we now call the Renaissance. It was a revolution that had been long in the making, building on earlier medieval and classical art, literature, and… Read More »How a Persian King Inspired the Renaissance
By the mid-C15th Florence had become the centre of an artistic, architectural, philosophical, and scientific golden age we now call the Renaissance. And all this had happened under the stewardship of one man, Cosimo de’… Read More »The Medici – Part 2 – Machiavellian Intrigue