Tag: Curzola

• 103 – Catching up with Genoa (up to 1310’s)

  It’s about time we stop ignoring poor old Genoa up in the top left-hand corner of the country and bring her up-to-date. We take a really quick race from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to Genoa in the 14th century: it’s battles against Saracens, Pisans and Venitians as it fights to assert itself…

  A History of Italy

  December 8, 2020

  Boccanera, Curzola, Doria, Frederick Barbarossa, Frederick II, Genoa, Grimaldi, Legnano, Mascherati, Melorai, Pisa, Podcast, Saracens, Sardinia, Venice

• Recap 05 – From episode 077 to 100

  We go back over around 50 years from the death of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II to beyond 1300 to retrace the steps of the kingdom of Sicily, the war of the Sicilian Vespers, the northern communes and maritime republics as well as looking over at Sardinia and keeping an eye as always on the…

  A History of Italy

  November 10, 2020

  Arborea, Battle of Campaldino, Benevento, Boniface VIII, Calari, Charles II, Charles of Anjou, Commune, Conrad IV, Corradino, Curzola, Dante Alighieri, Della Torre, Ezzelino da Romano, Florence, Frederick II, Frederick III, Gallura, Genoa, Ghibelline, Guelph, Manfredi, Meloria, Milan, Naples, Papacy, Peter of Aragon, Pisa, Podcast, Podestà, Sardinia, Sicily, Signorie, Tagliacozzo, Torres, Ugolino della Gherardesca, Venice, Visconti

• 087 – Marco Polo part 2

  Marco Polo finally leaves on his great voyage which will take him to the ends of the known earth to meet a whole series of different cultures to then come back to Venice and live though one of the republic’s most dangerous moments

  A History of Italy

  May 8, 2020

  Andrea Dandalo, China, Constantinople, Curzola, Genoa, Kublai Khan, Lamba Doria, Maffio Polo, Marco Polo, Matteo Polo, Meloria, Mongol, Nicolò Polo, Oberio Doria, Pisa, Podcast, Rabban Sauma