The strait's Golden Horn, seen here, divides the city in two. The Galata Tower, built by Genoans in 1348, presides over the picture.It replaced the Tower of Galato—known as the Megalos Pyrgos ...

Michelangelo doesn’t want a fiefdom in the Balkans; he wants cold, hard ducats. It is 1506, and “Il Divino” is in Constantinople at the invitation of Bayezid II. The Ottoman ruler has ...