Father Giuseppe Pagano is furious. The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their ...

In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed ... to shape the dome’s masonry? And could a dome be built at all on the octagonal floor plan dictated by the existing walls—eight ...

So Pagano has enlisted the support of “Salviamo Firenze” or “Save Florence,” a group set up to protect the city from overtourism, which has vowed to join the monks in protest, with plans ...