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In 1470, after Nicolò da Canale helped lose Negroponte to Mehmed II, Venice replaced him as Captain General of the Fleet with Pietro Moce...

  Detail, second king, from Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano , 1422-23,  Florence An earlier Western conception of the toup...

   Manessis icon, 1546 S. Giorgio dei Greci , Venice, (probably) Comin Manessis, d. 1565    There are very few pictures of ...

Esther Kirby Whitehurst My grandmother, Ann Whitehurst Jordan, told me this story about her mother.  She, my grandmother, loved history -- ...

    Kevin Andrews at AcroCorinth, 1950 LIFE Magazine Three years ago Pierre MacKay reviewed the new edition of Kevin Andrew's ...

  A reader from Nauplion recently responded to my request for more spolia several months ago and sent me six "new" finds. This f...

Parrots , Peter Boell Two contemporaries of Columbus report what they had learned about his voyages: Pietro Bembo's History of Veni...

  Polyphemus and Galatea This weekend the Byzantine Studies Association of North America is meeting at the University of Pennsylvania in P...

Mayster Grigorius de Napolis, 31 March 1280 end of first line, second paragraph from the bottom Gregorios of Nauplion first appears as a p...

  Houses in Longanikos Kostis Kourelis wrote recently about stone masons in the Morea .  He gives me the explanation for some photogr...