‘the eldest child of liberty’

A personal approach to the Renaissance

It’s always a thrill to explore new places, and like many others, we have previous;y visited the northern Italian hotspots in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. This time, we wanted to dig a little

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A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

HEADWORDS SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY A dictionary JANICE ...

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history