Tag: Brescia

• 156 – Venice tangles with the Turks and messes with Milan (1416 – 1454)

  Venice, after trying to avoid it, goes to war with the Turks and at the Battle of Gallipoli a spectacular victory is won… but by who? Then, we see how Venice used an ex ,mercenary captain of Milan against his old employers, Carmagnola, but then, when the Serenissima started to suspect him, he met an unfortunate end. Finally we relive one of…

  A History of Italy

  April 4, 2023

  Bardonlino, Battle of Gallipoli, Brescia, Carmagnola, Castello Scaligero, Francesco Bussone, Francesco Foscari, Gallipoli, Lake Garda, Lazise, Milan, Ottoman Turks, Pietro Loredan, Sirmione, Tommaso Mocenigo, Torbole, Venice, Verona

• 108 – Italians against stairs

  Mastino II Della Scala gets too big for his own good and Venice, Florence and Milan move in to bring him down a rung or two

  A History of Italy

  January 19, 2021

  Azzone Visconti, Brescia, Charles of Bohemia, Doge, Florence, Francesco Dandalo, Giovanni Visconti, Gradenigo, Lucca, Luchino Visconti, Mantua, Mastino II Della Scala, Milan, Padua, Parma, Pietro De Rossi, Podcast, Rome, Treviso, Venice

• 107 – An unexpected king

  While everyone (the Pope, the king of France, Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence etc.) is manoeuvring in northern Italy along comes an unexpected king, John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia. Will he be able to unite the northern cities?

  A History of Italy

  January 12, 2021

  Azzone Visconti, Brescia, Cangrande Della Scala, Della Scala, Enrico Dandolo, Florence, Gonzaga, john of Luxenburg, John ofBohemia, Lucca, Luigi Gonzaga, Luis IV, Mantua, Mastino II Della Scala, Philipp the Fair, Podcast, Venice, Verona, Visconti

• 098 – The Visconti take Milan, Act 1

  We see the rise of the Visconti family in Milan as they battle the power of the Della Torre for control over the city and subsequently much of Northern Italy. First however, I take a personal look at my relationship with Milan and tell the story of how my mother was an unwitting baby sitter…

  A History of Italy

  September 28, 2020

  Alessandria, Brescia, Giorgio Ambrosoli, Lodi, Matteo Visconti, Michele Sindona, Milan, Monferrato, Napoleone della Torre, Novara, Podcast, Vercelli

• 093 – A change of scenery for the papacy and an anachronistic emperor

  The papacy, under Clement V heads off for its long exile to Avignone and then Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII tries to move back the clock on the Italian scene.

  A History of Italy

  July 18, 2020

  Anangni, Avignone, Benedict XI, Brescia, Clement V, Dante Alighieri, Della Scala, Della Torre, Florence, France, Francesco Petrarca, Gonzaga, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Iron Crown, Malatesta, Mantua, Milan, Philipp IV, Podcast, Polenta, Rome, Visconti