Today, in 1497: Girolamo Savonarola organised one of the most infamous moments in Renaissance history - the Bonfire of the Vanities. Here...

In the spring of 1467 Lorenzo de Medici's mother, Lucrezia Tournabuoni, went to Rome. Using the pretext of an incognito visit to her bro...

Giuliano de Medici by Sandro Botticelli On 26th April 1478 the ruler of Florence Lorenzo de Medici made his way through his city to t...

The Execution of Savonarola by Anonymous I've been spending a lot of time recently researching Girolamo Savonarola recently, for pa...

Lorenzo the Magnificent by Agnolo Bronzino On 21st March 1492, Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" de Medici was carried from his pala...

Gina McKee as Caterina Sforza in The Borgias As Caterina left her childhood home of Milan, she was accompanied on her way to Rome by ...

Savanarola by Fra Bartolomeo Giralomo Savanarola is probably one of the most famous people from Renaissance Italy, next to the Borgia a...