Read The Decameron

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.

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

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

Stand before the 5.17 m marble David — Michelangelo's flawless Renaissance colossus 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.