Tag: Frederick II

• 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

• 080 – Frederick II’s boys and here come the French

  1250 – 1266 We take a look at what happened to the sons of Frederick II, Conrad, Henry and Manfredi. In the case of Manfredi we see his rise to influence over almost all of Italy before it all came crashing down with the invasion of Charles of Anjou.

  A History of Italy

  March 12, 2020

  Alexander iV, Benevento, Clement IV, Conrad IV, Florence, Frederick II, Genoa, Ghibelline, Guelph, Innocent IV, Lombardy, Lucera, Manfredi, Podcast, Rome, Siciliy, Siena, Tuscany, Urban IV, Venice

• 079 – The Prisoner King and the rest of Frederick II’s boys

  1248 -1272 We start taking a look at how things progressed after the death of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, starting with his son Enzo, who fell prisoner to the Coomune of Bologna, giving rise to a whole series of legends

  A History of Italy

  March 4, 2020

  Bologna, Commune, Enzo of Sardinia, Frederick II, Innocent IV, La Secchia Rapita, Modena, Podcast, Respighi, Tassoni, Wagner

• 077 – The situation in the 13th century and revenge in Florence

  We take a look at how our communes are evolving in the 13th century with the whole messy Guelphs and Ghibellines business and have a look at the legend of how the factions were formed in Florence with the tragic tale of Buondelmonte dei Buondelmonti, a real soap opera, Florentine style.

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2020

  Assisi, Buondelmonte, Commune, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Florence, Frederick II, Ghibelline, Guelph, Knight, Mosca Lamberti, Oddoarrigo, Parma, Pazzi, Perugia, Podcast, Podestà