Catherine Fletcher

Once Rome’s main artery south, for centuries the Via Appia has been taken as proof of Roman greatness.

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Noel Malcolm is an ambitious comparative study that raises plenty of questions.

Not every Renaissance queen was remarkable, but that does not make them insignificant. 

Discovering Machiavelli’s talent for losing.

The ‘middle Medici’ – two popes, two dukes, two bastards and a future queen of France – are too often left out of the dynasty’s history. Catherine Fletcher addresses that gap.