See Michelangelo's David

The Renaissance in one walkable city: Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's dome, and the Uffizi

Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Leonardo, Raphael and Caravaggio under one Renaissance roof in Florence

Michelangelo's New Sacristy, where Night and Day lie unfinished over the Medici tombs.

Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Florence and Venice; the game that made the series.

Machiavelli's advice to a ruler: better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Vasari on Giotto, Leonardo and Michelangelo; art history begins in 1550.

Share a colossal T-bone steak, charred rare over wood — Florence’s carnivore centrepiece

Ten young Florentines tell a hundred stories while the plague rages; the first modern prose.