Tag: Bologna

• 142 – Pope-ing out of the Middle ages (1447 – 1492)

  We accompany the last set of popes of the middle ages, from Nicholas V to Innocent VIII as they take us along with the usual intrigue in the Italian peninsula with Naples,Florence, Milan and Venice as well as many others while the city of Rome takes the shape we would start to recognise today heading…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Ancona, Bentivoglio, Bologna, Borgia, Callixtus III, Eugene IV, Ferrara, Florence, Lorenzo De Medici, Malatesta, Michalanghelo, Ordelaffi, Perugino, Podcast, Rimini, Rome, Sistene chapel, Sixtus IV, St. Peter, Umbria

• 141 – The popes are back in business (1417 – 1447)

  After the healing of the western schism in 1417, new pope Martin V must get his papal states under control which means dealing with a whole load of issue such as brigands, mercenary captains, pushy neighbours, unruly lords and a lack of cash. We then see how his successor, Eugene IV was able to muck…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Basel, Bentivoglio, Bologna, Braccio da Montone, Colonna, Cosimo de Medici, Eugene IV, Federico da Montefeltro, Felix V, Florence, Francesco Sforza, Martin V, Medici, Milan, Orsini, Perugia, Ravenna, Rome, Sforza, Urbino, Visconti

• 120 – Braccio da Montone, early life of a condottiero (1368 – 1406)

  Fortebraccio, known as Braccio da Montone

  A History of Italy

  October 5, 2021

  Alberico da Barbiano, Bologna, Braccio da Montone, Emilia Romagna, Le Marche, Malatesta, Montefeltro, Perugia, Pesaro, Podcast, Umbria, Urbino

• 114 – More Milan and popey come home (1345 – 1385)

  The continuing consolidation of Milan under Bernabò and Galeazzo Visconti and the start of the Great Western Schism

  A History of Italy

  May 18, 2021

  Asti, Avignon, Bernabò Visconti, Blanche of Savoy, Bologna, Clement VII, Florence, Galeazzo Visconti, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Gregory XI, Novara, Podcast, Poiters, Rome, Urban V, Urban VI

• 105 – The battle of the Bucket (1325)

  We take a look at the 1325 battle of Zappolino between Modena and her Ghibelline allies and Bologna and her Guelph ones and how, after one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Iyaian middle ages, the Modenese cam home with a bucket (and heaps of cash).

  A History of Italy

  December 22, 2020

  Azz Visconti, Bologna, Cangrande Della Scala, Castruccio Castracani, Malatestino Malatesta, Modena, Monteveglio, Obizzo D'Este, Panaro, Po, Podcast, Rinaldo D'Este, Zappolino