Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemller created his 1516 "Carta marina" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time.

These days, Genoa is a city searching for its second renaissance. The late 1980s and early ’90s were unkind to much of Europe — Italy and Genoa included.

What types of industry did Genoa support in the Renaissance? In addition to shipbuilding, banking, and textile manufacture flourished, and Genoese militarists moved into Syros, Corsica, and ...

Most notably, the Genoa renaissance will include the creation of a (still unnamed) cafe/wine bar in the adjoining corner space that's been empty -- and the object of hopeful Genoa imaginings ...

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time.

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "Carta marina" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time ...

Genoa's dukes and doges lived on a rise about 15 chiaroscuro minutes on foot from Palazzo Spinola, a walk that passes the black-and-white striped medieval cathedral of San Lorenzo, many a ...

Exploring the streets of Genoa leads visitors on a journey that starts in the gnarled, narrow and dark alleyways of the Middle Ages, opens onto wider, palace-lined avenues of the Renaissance and so… ...

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "Carta marina" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time.

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time.

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time.