Tag: Germany

• Special: 8th September 1943, from infamy to resistance

  To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the armistice between the Italian government and the allied forces we look at the fateful day the armistice was announced and the consequences for the Italian forces and people.

  A History of Italy

  September 9, 2018

  Allies, Armistice, Badoglio, Botteghe, Carboni, Eisenhower, Enrico Caviglia, Germany, Italy, Mussolini, Nazi, Podcast, Reggio Calabria, Reggio Emilia, Resistance, Rome, Umberto II, United Nations

• 027 – Yet another Otto (III)

  983 – 1002 After the death of Otto II, we see how his young son was brought up to manhood under the regency of his mother Theophanu and his grandmother Adelaide of Italy and how he became an emperor with dreams of greatness, as well as how those dress clashed with reality

  A History of Italy

  August 19, 2018

  Adelaide, Boniface VII, Crescenzio II, Cresenzi, Germany, Gregorio Tuscolo, Gregory V, John XIV, John XV, John XVI, Marozia, Otto II, Otto III, Podcast, Ravenna, Rome, Soratte, Thophanu, Todi