Italian author, poet and journalist Dino Buzzati, was probably best known for his novel The Tartar Steppe, but it was his short stories that set him apart from other authors from the same era. This could be in part due to the approach he took to his writings. The approach he used was to trea...

The heroic vision of the High Renaissance artists and their patrons is shared, even aroused, by their wealthy patrons who set out to better the ‘ancients’. In Rome and Milan artists and architects are commissioned to aggrandize the triumphs of popes and princes, dynasties and The Church. Br...