Sr. Juliana Montanari

“I preferred [wisdom] to sceptres and thrones, and I accounted wealth as nothing in comparison with her. Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold is but a little sand in …

Vienna. The city of galas, of refinement, of music and pompous processions; the key locale for the political and social events of Europe was about to succumb to the fury of an Ottoman invasion. Surrounded …