While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...

The sonnet was invented in 12th century Italy as a 14-line poem with 11 beats per ... Petrarch died in 1374, but his poetry became the most widely published literature of the Italian Renaissance. It ...

The claim, central to many interpretations of the Renaissance, that humanists introduced a revolution ... He shows that the study of classical texts in schools reached a high point in the twelfth ...