July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy
Its 1637 and we are in Paris where at Cardinal Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing a council...
July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy
July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo
June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning
May 22 Papal Rome and the Trevi Fountain
May 4 Dividing the 'New World'
Mar 6 Michelangelo
Feb 16 - Carnival, Mardi Gras and Pancake Tuesday
Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence
Jan 16 - The Medici become the Pope's Bankers
Jan 7 - Galileo starts a revolution