Florence, Italy News

A Sure Bet - Publishers and booksellers already expect the latest Robert Langdon thriller to top bestseller lists all over the world.

Early reviews of Dan Brown's fast-paced fourth book in "The Da Vinci Code" series labeled it a "clunky" page-turner that will nevertheless delight his fans.

Forget the Biennale. The foremost reason for visiting La Serenissima this summer is to witness a truly once-in-a-lifetime artistic encounter.

It is one of the most famous cities in Europe - a place of churches, courtyards and art galleries whose fine buildings still sing of the Renaissance.

Dan Brown , The Da Vinci Code 's Dan Brown, has yet another long-awaited book on the ever-so-near horizon featuring your favorite tweedy, turtlenecked hearthrob-tellectual Robert Langdon.

For sometime elsewhere, for instance, in Austerity Again and more recently Bad Results Follow Flawed , I have been articulating the notion that austerity as the path to economic growth is devoid of credibility.

Tiny letters in a Renaissance painting, unnoticed for centuries, are a clue that might help Robert Langdon avert global famine.

The Michelangelo Exhibition, on loan from the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy, contains a series of Michelangelo 's most important sculptures, which are original cast reproductions created directly from the Master's works by the National Academy of Cast Making in Florence.

Maxim Belkov of Russia holds up his country's flag as he celebrates on the podium after winning the 9th stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, from Sansepolcro to Florence, Sunday, May 12, 2013.

After cleverly dispelling charges of sodomy, Da Vinci realizes his visions were more than just dreams and hallucinations brought on by captivity.

Dan Brown's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code finds hidden messages in the work of Dante, providing rich pickings for eager modern conspiracy theorists Portrait of Dante Alighieri with details of Florence and the allegory of the Divine Comedy, painted in 1465.

Last week, Elena Capobianco, export manager for the venerable Florentine winery Marchesi Antinori, was in Halifax to present a range of Antinori's most prestigious wines.

One great thing about Florence is that even if some family members have already visited the city, there are always more things to see, and many of the city's masterpieces are just as thrilling on the second or third visit.

EU commission chief Barroso said in a speech in Florence, Italy on Thursday that "we are not yet out of the woods, [but] the existential threat to the euro is essentially over." He noted that "resurgent ... populist" parties in Europe are "corroding trust and confidence" in the EU, however.

DAN Brown's forthcoming novel, Inferno, is set principally in Florence, and already the city is gearing itself up for an even greater influx of tourists than usual after the book's publication on Tuesday.

Three hundred ballot boxes turn an ex-industrial space used for carpentry into a spacious and original loft in Florence, Italy designed by b-arch architecture.

Here you can see old Florence from the back of the Pitti Palace, almost in the Boboli Gardens.

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Today's colorful and flourishing menswear market has lifted the land of opportunity within the menswear arena.

After selling his Dallas oil and gas company and moving to Europe, Robert Edsel found himself in the art-drenched Italian city of Florence.