Just an hour from Florence, this 12th-century former episcopal residence welcomes you in a setting worthy of a Renaissance ...

He is depicted in a fresco at Santa Maria Novella, Florence - Bridgeman Jeff Bezos gave $100 million to actress Eva Longoria and the retired admiral who oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden to ...

A new lawsuit in New York alleges Mariano Rivera and his wife, Clara, of ignoring the sexual abuse of a minor that occurred both at their home and a church. The New York Yankees legend is the ...

By Meryl Cates The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having dinner with her husband, the choreographer George Balanchine, at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan when the impresario Sol Hurok approached ...

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

The woman's name was Maria Zaytsava, and she was then just 19 years old. She was among tens of thousands of people, many of them young, who had taken to the streets to protest the reelection of ...

There’s no rule about how many pages define a novella but, when Moby-Dick seems like too much of a challenge, there’s something comforting about a book so short that it can be read over the ...

The strong Santa Ana winds that fueled much of the L.A. wildfires’ destruction are expected to relax for a few days. Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images The fires around Los Angeles ...

The Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella dates from 1246, its stupendous swirling marble façade created by Alberti in 1465. Often bypassed for the more famous Santa Croce (big mistake), the ...

Art hounds should check out Pontormo’s masterful Mannerist Visitation in the tiny church of Santa Felicità ... T1 tram which whisks you into Santa Maria Novella train station town in 22 ...

In her first ever interview, Maria Guardiola, a model and influencer, spoke lovingly about her parents - joking that she had inherited her father’s ‘stubbornness’ while her ‘confidence and ...