Meet the woman who stormed the Castel Sant’Angelo without spilling any blood while heavily pregnant, wrote a book on alchemy, trained and led numerous armies, and even managed to turn her captor, Cesare Borgia, into her lover. 

Of all the Lords of Carpegna, only two houses played significant roles in Italian History. The Montefeltro and their sworn enemies, the 'bad head' Malatesta.

In 1944, Anthony Clarke remembered something that stopped the destruction of Sansepolcro and the greatest picture in the world.

Meet Simonetta Vespucci, the muse who breathed beauty, passion, and symbolism into Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpieces.