http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/categories/History/ Newsfeed for the latest History articles and reviews published in Three Monkeys Online. Three Monkeys Online is a current affairs and arts magazine published in three different languages - English, Italian, and Spanish en information@threemonkeysonline.com Dr. Catherine Lawless explores the position of a particular category of women who did not fit at all easily into either religious or social stereotypes, women who were the objects of amorous devotion on the part of prominent and influential citizens and on a more earthy level women who were mistresses, concubines and mothers of illegitimate children in Renaissance Florence. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/women_margins_mistresses_florence_lawless.html Fifteenth Century Florence was the centre of the artistic explosion we now term the renaissance. It was also home to the relatively new profession of banking, which, for families like the Medici, created the wealth which was used to patronise the arts. English novelist Tim Parks talks to Three Monkeys Online about the Medici, usury, and the uneasy relationship, then and now, between money, art, and religion. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/medici_money_tim_parks_interview.html In November 2004 Horatio Morpurgo flew into Kiev, on his way to report on a Nature reserve for an ecological magazine. By chance he found himself in the midst of the Orange revolution. Morpurgo gives his eye-witness account of the Ukranian Orange revolution to Three Monkeys Online. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/ukraine_orange_revolution_remembered.html In another 'snapshots from history' interview, broadcaster Richard Gilbert shares with Three Monkeys Online readers an interview with General Mark Clark conducted in 1975. Clark fought in WWI, was commander of allied forces in Italy during WWII, and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (Clark signed the armistice with China and North Korea). The interview looks back over Clark's long career, and offers his perspective on challenges facing America at the end of the 20th Century. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/_liberation_rome_korean_war_general_mark_clark.html In 1975 Richard Gilbert, as part of a production for Canada's CBS, interviewed Dean Rusk. Rusk, at that stage retired, had been a serving Secretary of State for both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. The interview, over thirty years later, still resonates. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/_dean_rusk_us_secretary_of_state_interview.html