THE new edition of Professor Villari’s Savonarola, 1 which has been favorably known for a quarter of a century, includes notice of such fresh material as has come to light since its first issue, but ...

“Salem is a city in Massachusetts, not Tuscany." That truth-bomb was dropped a couple of week ago by our friends at the National Catholic Reporter—or the Fishwrap, as it’s known in orthodox circles.

On April 8, 1492, the de facto ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici — “Il Magnifico,” the model for Machiavelli’s prince, the patron of Botticelli, da Vinci and Michelangelo and the “needle of Italy’s ...

CASTLE TO CASTLE by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. 359 pages. De/acorte. $7.50. “A body,” Louis-Ferdinand Céline once wrote, “is always something that’s true; that is why it’s nearly always sad and repulsive ...

THE PIECE: A Renaissance Revival carved oak Savonarola-inspired armchair, from about 1900, probably made in the Midwest. THE OWNER: Louise Buckley of Metairie says that she remembers being frightened ...

Q: The chair in the photograph was a gift from my New England uncle many years ago, reputedly from an abbey or priory in or around New Hampshire. I have attached several photos, even one of the back, ...

Sir, Brendan Donnelly (Letters, September 18) identifies Savonarola as an alarming precedent for Theresa May’s Florence speech. A more hopeful Florentine figure for her would be the Protestant ...

San Francisco Artist Bruce Conner paints and pastes together his caustic collages and assemblages from all manner of thrift-shop odds and ends. When they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Art ...

Donald Trump, false prophet. By contemporary standards, his populist power-taking may seem like genius, but through a historical lens he is an obvious plagiarist. Trump has stolen his lines and stage ...