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A history of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present
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Here are your show notes, in the same structured style and tone as before: Show Notes Take a virtual or live tour of Trento Episode Overview...
Episode Overview Continuing our tour of the Italian peninsula in the early 1500s,...
Why not experience the history yourself? Take a virtual or live Naples tour: Episode Overview Having toured Spanish Sard...
Episode Overview Having raced through the early 1500s following the Italian Wars, the...
To celebrate the 200th anniversary episode, which coincided with the 8th anniversary,...
Episode Summary With Giovanni dalle Bande Nere gone, we return to Florence to witness the dramatic collapse of the centuries-old Florentine...
In this episode, we trace the final chapters in the life of Giovanni dalle&...
Episode Summary Picking up where we left off, Giovanni de’ Medici, son of Caterina Sforza and known to history as Giovanni of the...
In this episode, we reunite with an old friend of the show — Caterina Sforza, the indomitable “Tigress of Forlì.” From her, we follow t...
Want to experience Rome live or ona a virtual tour? Take a look at our VoiceMap tour of Rome Episode overview In this episode, we pick up wi...
After three episodes exploring the life of Leonardo da Vinci, we return to the turbulent stage of the Italian Wars. In this episode, we pick...
We explore the fascinating intersection between one of the world’s most famous relics and one of its most brilliant minds: Leonardo Da...
Early Life & Education 🎨 Artistic Breakthroughs ⚙️ Engineering Mindset 🕵️ Scandal & Rejection 🤹 From Florence to Milan 🎭 Court E...
Starting from reasons to have a good cry, particularly concerning hair, we then head to Vinci, outside Florence in the mid 1400’s to w...
In this episode, we dive into the dramatic papacy of Pope Leo X, exploring his efforts to secure Medici power, his architectural and social...
Of course! Here’s the revised version of the summary show notes with key words and phrases bolded for emphasis: In...
In this episode, we pick up the story of the Medici family as they return to Florence, armed with the great news of Giovanni de’ Medic...
Among the many casualties of the battle of Garigliano was Piero de Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Piero, previously exiled from Flo...
Venice is reeling from the defeat at Agnadello, but immediately starts the comeback egged on by doge Lorenzo Loredan. After some promising v...
Want to experience Venice live or on a Virtual tour? Take our VoiceMap tour if Venice After following the adventures of Julius II we go and...
Giuliano della Rovere, after trying for more than a decade, finally manages to become pope Julius II in 1503. He gets to work breaking the l...
Take a tour of the Rome as the Borgias would have seen it Just when the Borgias seem at the top of their game and that nothing could possibl...
People in Italy are getting very nervous about Cesare Borgia’s successes, at times reached with treachery, and some of the unhappy par...
After doing his part for the French in the second Italian War Cesare Borgia heads back to Rome to concur with his father pope Alexander VI....
We first follow the life of the military captain Ettore Fieramosca (Hector Proudfly) and his troubled love story with Ginvenra da Monreale w...
Take a virtual or live tour of Naples Naples once again falls to the French of king Luis XII, but once again they can’t hold on to it...
We follow Cesare Borgia as he continues his conquest ousting Giovanni Sforza from Pesaro, Pandolfo Malatesta from Rimini and Astorre Manfred...
With the French hold on Milan looking weak, Ludovico il Moro sees his chance to take his duchy back, but only manages for a while before he...
As we set the scene for the start of Cesare Borgia’s military campaign, we start to observe the ominous signs of what is to come in Ro...
King Louis XII prepares to descend upon Milan to stake his claim to the duchy. Before he sees out he needs to make deals with England, The S...
We follow the last stand of Caterina Sforza as the French once again descend upon Italy with king Louis XII and Cesare Borgia, made represen...
After the assassination of her husband Girolamo Riario, Caterina is in full control as regent for her son, Ottaviano Riario. She has to navi...
After settling in to their new signoria, Caterina Sforza and her husband Girolamo Riario have to deal with continuous plots, the War of Ferr...
We look at the early years of the woman who would come to be known as “The Tigress of Forlì”, Caterina Sforza starting with her...
Take a virtual or live tour of Mantua Having met Francesco II Gonzaga, at the battle of Fornovo, we take some time to go back and have a loo...
After leaving the Papal States with Cesare Borgia waiting for us, we head into the Republic of Florence to look at the struggle with the oth...
After seeing French King Charles VIII out of the Italian peninsula, we take a quick tour around to see what the situation is at the end of t...
Charles VIII of France is on his way out as king Ferrandino of Naples, along with Gonzalo de Cordoba, are gradually taking back the kingdom....
Take a virtual or live tour of Naples Charles VIII of France finally managed to get to Naples, but doesn’t hang around long, the playe...
A chance visit to the beautiful Ligurian town of Porto Venere, staying in a 900 year-old tower, Torre Capitolare (https://www.capitolare.com...
After his election as pope Alecander VI Rodrigo Borgia gets straight down to business, sorting out the lawlessness in Rome, tinkering with t...
After seeing Charles VIII though Rome with an uncertain deal with pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia, we go back to see how the Borgias came...
We follow the life of mystic, prophet and monk, Gerolamo Savonarola, who came to have a great moral influence over Florence, particularly af...
Charles VIII of France starts to head into Italy, beginning with the lands of Savoy where a 2-year-old duke leaves things to his mum to deal...
We look at the background to the expedition by King Charles VIII of France into Italy to claim the throne of Naples. This takes us to explor...
We take our usual tour around Italy, this time focusing on the latter part of the 15th century and the start of the Renaissance with: Aragon...
We go back to a quiet mountain valley of north-eastern Italy where the peace was forever broken by one of the country’s most ambitious...
We linger yet another episode in the Middle Ages to take a look at the Duchy of Urbino and in particular the “condottiero” Feder...
We take a look at what life was like in the middle ages for the average Giuseppe and Lucrezia, from birth to death, sickness, medicine, work...
We take a look at a brief summary of one of the oldest dynasties in Europe, the House of Este who are the ancestors also of the Ho...
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