That sunny morning of 10 August 1535 there was great excitement throughout the Charterhouse. The monks, the landowners and the many workers employed by them were mobilized to face an extraordinary...

In September 1532, the new viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo arrived in Naples which was still affected by the plague which had killed tens of thousands of deaths. The viceroy immediately launched his...

The ancients identified it as one of the theaters of the Gigantomachie between the gods of Olympus and the giant sons of Gaea. In that ardent "phlegraean" land, the elements manifested themselves at...