Tag: Charles VIII

• 157 – Venice out of the middle ages and into uncertainty (1454 – 1492)

  After the peace of Lodi, the relative stability on the peninsula allows Venice to concentrate on the Ottomans again and the inevitable first war breaks out in 1463. Before that, we see one of the few doge’s to actually be deposed, Francesco Foscari a record breaking doge for various reasons and sexy actor in “The Medici” Tv series. Then, when Venice reaches a rather humiliating…

  A History of Italy

  May 3, 2023

  Arsenale, Bagnolo, Charles VIII, Courtesan, Este, Ferrara, Foscari, Girolamo Riario, Jacopo Foscari, Ludovico il Moro, Medici, Negroponte, Ottoman, Pasquale Malpiero, Pius II, Podcast, Sixtus IV, Turk, Venice

• 153 – The assassination of Galeazzo Maria and the Moore takes control (1468 – 1494)

  Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza continues with his expensive naughty ways until he is assassinated in 1476. His son Gian Galeazzo becomes duke under the regency of his mother, Bona of Savoy, until his uncle Ludovico, known as “il Moro” the Moore takes over as Italy heads towards the aptly named, “Italian Wars”. Meanwhile…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Andea Lampugnano, Assassination, Beatrice D'Este, Carlo Visconti, Cecilia Gallerani, Charles VIII, Cicco Simonetta, Ferrara, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Genoa, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, Gnocchi, Gorgonzola, Lady with the ermine, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucia Marliani, Ludovico il Moro, Ludovico Sforza, Milan, Pazzi conspiracy, Pizza, Swiss Confereration

• Special: A load of baloney from Bologna part 2

  The second part of a two-part episode on the history of the city of Bologna. Her ewe cover the modern and contemporary eras of the regional capital of Emilia Romagna

  A History of Italy

  May 2, 2018

  Archiginnasio, Armistice, Bentivoglio, Bologna, Borgia, Charlemagne, Charles V, Charles VIII, Clement, Etruscan, Papal States, Petronius, Podcast, Resistance, Roman, University, Zanardi