Tag: Albizzi

• 143 Cosimus Medices Pater Patriae (1429 – 1464)

  We finally get into the Medici in style with the man who is considered the founder of the family’s great fortune and political dominance. We follow Cosimo de Medici as he slowly asserts his power over the Republic of Florence with careful internal and external political manoeuvring to form what some have called the “crypto-signoria”…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Albizzi, Cosimo de Medici, Donatello, Donatello Santi, Florence, Giuliano De Medici, Lorenzo De Medici, Medici bank, Michaeangelo, Michelangelo, Milan, Naples, Nicholas V, Pitti, Pope, Sforza, Signoria, Urbino, Uzzano

• 130 – The father of the father of the nation: the rise of the Medici (1402 – 1428)

  We follow the life and times of Giovanni di Bicci De Medici, shrewd banker and able politician as he navigates the complicated waters of early 15th century Florentine politics as the republic prepares to kick of an age of unprecedented cultural renewal: the Renaissance

  A History of Italy

  January 13, 2022

  Albizzi, Brunelleschi, Cosimo de Medici, Donatello, Florence, Ghiberti, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Giovanni di Bicci, Masaccio, Medici, Milan, Piccarda Boeri, Podcast, Renaissance, Venice

• 125 – War and rebellion in Tuscany (1348 to 1382)

  After seeing the gruesome spectacle of the plague in Florence through the eyes of Giovani bocaccio we follow the rising tension in the city and all over Tuscany that would eventually erupt in the rebellion known as the “Revolt of the Ciompi”. In the meantime, Florence also finds time to participate in the war of…

  A History of Italy

  November 16, 2021

  Accaioli, Albizzi, Antipope Clement VII, Betto Biffoli, Capponi, Cesena, Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gregory XI, Guido D'Asciano, John Hawkwood, Katherine of Siena, Malatesta, Michele di Lando, Ordelaffi, Perugia, Pitti, Podcast, Revolt of the Ciompi, Rivolta del Bruco, Siena, Sifnoria, Tumulto dei Ciompi, Urban VI