In his Parallel Lives, Plutarch recounts an episode from the youth of Julius Caesar, when he was captured by Cilician pirates.
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The proposition of Giovanni della Casa's Il Galateo, an influential 16th-century Italian etiquette guide, is simple but difficult to get right: politeness is the art of pleasing others. Read an English translation from 1774 here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo/

The image of Mithras slaying the bull, symbolized the triumph of light over darkness and cosmic regeneration.
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One of the most fun aspects of collecting old cabinet cards is trying to guess the period in which they were taken, using clothing and small details as clues.
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On June 28, 1914, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated along with his wife by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

Romeo and Juliet’s last kiss (1823), by Francesco Hayez.
Pinacoteca di Brera (Milano).

The acrobat (1879), by Antonio Mancini.
Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Who was Ötzi, the Similaun mummy, discovered in a glacier on the border between Italy and Austria?

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First post here!
I’ll sit here for a while.

(Santo Stefano in Sessanio, Abruzzo)