In 1545, the year in which he turned seventy, Michelangelo Buonarroti completed his last public sculpture, the tomb of Pope Julius II in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Others might have ...
In 1765, the 25-year-old James Boswell found himself in Siena. He enjoyed a few glasses of Montepulciano and the company of the city’s famously fair ladies. One of them, Girolama Piccolomini, fell in ...