Professor Millicent Marcus GRD ’74 is a professor in the Yale Italian department, who focuses on Italian culture through literature, history and film. She is also the curator of the 7th Italian Film ...

Physicists studying Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel have made the remarkable discovery that the Italian Renaissance man may have beaten Galileo and Isaac Newton to theorizing gravity. Leonardo’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you see the name Leonardo da Vinci, what springs into your mind? Leonardo’s paintings or his ...

Italian polymath superstar Umberto Eco keeps ticking, and his books keep coming (I count 30 that have been translated into — or were composed in — English, but I’m sure I’ve missed a few). Erudition ...

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...

The research into Leonardo da Vinci’s alleged remains is decades-long. But at last, it’s been revealed 14 living people can claim to be descendants of the family of the Italian polymath and High ...

DOUBTLESS, this week’s subject would rather be deemed a European Icon. As an Italian Scot, he’s always been an enthusiastic internationalist. Enthusiastic: mot juste for Richard Demarco, one of art’s ...

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