A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

The book, celebrated at a recent launch at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, is a collection of sonnets – traditionally a 14-line poem that follows one of several specific rhyme schemes – inspired ...

In 1909, Abraham Bredius, then director of the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands, released a slim volume on Johannes Torrentius, the first-ever monograph on the 17th-century Dutch painter.