Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. An art historian and former resident of Florence, she has written numerous books on the art and architecture of Renaissance Italy. Her most recent book is House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (Bloomsbury, 2019). For more information, visit houseofsecretsbook.com
The event planner of the 15th century has to be Giovanni Rucellai, who, having successfully arranged the marriage of his youngest son to the granddaughter of Cosimo de’ Medici, bankrolled ...
You could say there was something of an age difference. I was 18 years old; the house was 536. Nevertheless, it was love at first sight. Sitting in a darkened ...