Historical Fiction Research

Lowde mynstralcyes, indeed.  That's what Chaucer calls a huge gathering of minstrels and jongleurs he wrote about in his work House o...

Scene from Gianni Schicchi  Both, actually. Opera fans know Gianni Schicchi as a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini, written in 1...

Giostra del Saracino, Via Larga, Firenze Recently, while researching another topic entirely, I found a description of a fifteenth-centu...

--> Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal: But I know one thing that never dies, The glory of the great dead. H á...

This is the third and last installment of Dads & Sons:  a series of posts about famous men in Italian history and about their fathers.  ...

This is the second installment in a series of three posts about fathers and sons:  men in Italian history who were famous in their lifetimes...