Nearly a mile beneath the surface of the Mediterranean, a 16th-century imperial merchant ship has emerged from the dark, its ...
N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...
Onofrio Panvinio, in a portrait by Jacopo Tintoretto. (Credit: Public Domain.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Many of the fundamental historical questions surrounding the Protestant Reformation ...
In only 38 years of existence in the 16th century, Onofrio Panvinio left behind a significant trail thanks to his extraordinarily prolific work: Indeed, he was called in his time pater omnis historiae ...
John Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton ...